Judge Robert Pringle House

1774

A Private Residence

The builder of this outstanding handsome

"single" house was a native of Scotland,

an eminent merchant of Charleston, and

a provincial lay judge who helped to open

the Revolution by resisting the Stamp Act.

His residence situated on ...

General Benjamin Smith

Here stood the

Wilmington residence of

General Benjamin Smith

Elected Governor of

North Carolina in 1810.

New Hanover Historical Commission.

A.J. Howell E.S. Martin

James Sprunt W.A. McGirt

Marker is on Dock Street 0.1 miles west of South 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. James Church

Built 1839, near site of older church, begun about 1751. Graves of Cornelius Harnett and Thomas Godfrey.

Marker is at the intersection of Market Street (U.S. 17) and South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east on Market Street.

Courtesy ...

The Second Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House

1944

The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs second house possesses national significance as the first house to be built under architect Frank Lloyd Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle". Based on arcs, radii, and circles, the house's design includes a floor-to-roof glass ...

John Harte McGraw

[fFront]

This commemorates the services of an energetic and wise leader in many enterprises undertaken for the general welfare especially the project for connecting Lake Washington with tide water by a ship canal

[Right side]

Governor of the

State ...

Johnson J. Hooper

1815 - 1861

Author, Editor, Lawyer

Secretary of Congress, C.S.A.

As a writer he created

Captain Simon Suggs

of the Tallapoosa Volunteers,

fictional character whose

humorous, rascally escapades

of pioneer days in Alabama

became world famous.

Marker is at the intersection of North Broadnax Street and East Cusseta Street, on ...

James Sprunt

Author of "Chronicles of the Cape Fear River" (1914), cotton merchant, philanthropist, British vice consul. His home stands two blocks west.

Marker is at the intersection of South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) and Nun Street, on the right when traveling south ...

James Hasell

Acting governor, 1771; thrice Chief Justice, 1750-1766; President of the Council. Owned large library. Home 7 mi. S.E.

Marker is at the intersection of South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) and Ann Street, on the right when traveling south on South 3rd ...

Jefferson County / Cocke County

Side A

* Jefferson County *

Established 1792: named in honor of

Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of State; formerly member of the Continental Congress; principal author of the Declaration of Independence; later Governor of Virginia; Vice-President and President of the United States.

Side B

* Cocke County ...

James A. Hemenway

U.S. House of Representatives 1895 – 1905

(Bronze Relief - - James A. Hemenway)

United States Senate 1905 – 1909

James A. Hemenway

1860 — 1923

Who through hard work, practical genius, and American opportunity, rose to positions of high honor and responsibility ...