Lillian Exum Clement Stafford

1894 - 1925

First female legislator in the South. Elected to N.C. House, 1920. Her law office was 400 yds west; home 1/2 mi. NE.

Marker is at the intersection of College St. (North Carolina Route 74) and S. Charlotte Street on ...

Thomas Wolfe

Author of "Look Homeward Angel" (1929)."Of Time and the River", and other works. Home stands 200 yards N., birthplace 500 yds. N.E.

Marker is on College St..

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Dorchester Free School

A Chance to Learn

A small brick building once stood here housing the Dorchester Free School. The school offered free education to omly a few poor students. All others paid tuition. Opportunities for white children to learn outside the home or ...

The Battle of Fredericksburg

This landscape, now changed by commercial and residential development, once swarmed with Union soldiers. Forty thousand Northern troops, led by General William B. Franklin, having crossed the Rappahannock River, massed here on the plain south of Fredericksburg. A like number ...

Flood Prevention

To commemorate

Flood Prevention

from these rivers

Dedicated to the

Flood Correspondents Association

of the Flood of 1889

on the fifty-first anniversary

May 31, 1940

Marker is on Washington Street, on the left when traveling east.

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“Camp Fisher” Civil War Campsite

The 2nd & 11th Mississippi Infantry Regt’s. (C.S.A.) camped here from Oct 1861 to Mar 1862. They named their camp in observance of the 6th North Carolina’s Camp Fisher (1 Mile to the NW). The 6th N.C. was the first ...

History of the Ten Commandments Monolith

May 1958 the Hanover Eagles Aerie #1406 Fraternal Order of Eagles erected the 10 Commandments Monument in Wirt Park, a Hanover Borough Park.

April 2004 Hanover Borough Council Petitioned the York County Orphan's Court for the right to sell the ...

Original Site of Furman Academy

1826

Original site of Furman Academy and Theological Institution.

Marked by the Old 96 District Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

1926

Marker is on Church Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Nassawango Iron Furnace

Built 1832 by the Maryland Iron Company to smelt bog iron ore dug from the bed of Nassawango Creek. It was abandoned in 1847. The old furnace stack is still standing (1934).

Marker is at the intersection of Old Furnace Road ...

Site of First Jackson County North Carolina Courts

Site of Daniel Bryson Sr. and Artic Virginia Dillard Brysons' home, where on March 21, 1853 the first court of Jackson County, N.C. was held, and on March 23, 1853 the county government was formed-the structure was razed in 1956

Marker ...