The 1858 Senate Campaign

Abraham Lincoln accepted the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on June 16, 1858. To open his campaign, Lincoln delivered the famous House Divided speech from Springfield that evening. Upon hearing the speech, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the incumbent knew ...

Plymouth State Normal School

Original Site circa 1881

Established by the NC General Assembly as one of two NC schools for training black teachers. Moved to Elizabeth City, NC in 1903 and was parent school to Elizabeth City State University.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Carthagenia Lodge

No. 38

Prince Hall

Affiliated

(Founder of Black Masonry)

Established 1800's

Rebuilt 1975

Marker is at the intersection of Madison Street and Little Court, on the left when traveling south on Madison Street.

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Brick House Landing

circa 1711

Owned by Arthur Rhodes. From this plantation, he sectioned off one hundred acres into what is now the town of Plymouth circa 1790.

Marker is at the intersection of Water Street and Washington Street, on the right when traveling west ...

Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Biochemists in the 1920s conducted studies leading to improved understanding of the roles of minerals in animal and human diets. University of Wisconsin biochemists E.B. Hart, C.A. Elvehjem, and Harry Steenbock discovered that copper, in ...

Cherry Colored School

circa 1920's

Conceived in the 1900's by black educator Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee staff. The Rosenwald program represented a massive effort to improve black rural schooling in the South through public-private partnership. Rosenwald schools were also in Plymouth & ...

Cherry

Named by surveyor Gisbourne J. Cherry. Post Office established 1898. 8 stores, 2 cotton mills, 1 gristmill, 1 blacksmith shop, 2 sawmills, 1 jail, 2 churches, 2 schools; 1 colored, 1 white, Charitable Brotherhood Lodge Hall, 1 barber shop.

Marker is ...

Concord Primitive Baptist Church

Original deed 14, December 1808 Jacob Hassell to James Ambrose and Andrew Oliver, commissioners. Constituted 1810.

Marker is at the intersection of Cherry Road and Mt Tabor Road (North Carolina Route 1146), on the right when traveling west on Cherry Road. ...

Cool Spring

Was known as Cool Spring in 1826. Hillie Holmes' Store was the last surviving relic as Cool Spring post office was moved into what became the town of Creswell in 1874.

Marker is on Cherry Road 0.2 miles west of Middle ...

Camden County Courthouse

Built in 1847, the historic Camden County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. "A jewel among the state's Greek Revival buildings," the two-story building with hip roof and five-bay main facade replaced a courthouse ...