Metropolitan Life Tower

Landmarks of New York

This tower, of massive simplicity it Italian Renaissance style, was completed in 1909 from plans by Le Brun & Sons. Its four clock faces are each 26 ½ feet in diameter, the minute hands weighing ½ ...

New Chapel Baptist Church

Established in 1867. Rev. Abraham Mebane entered into a lease agreement with the Lowell Colored School Society, giving New Chapel the right to erect a church on lot No. 41 in the town of Plymouth.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

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 ...

Anne Klein

Fashion Walk of Fame

The work of Anne Klein epitomized the ease and comfort associated with Post War American sportswear. She was instrumental in the development and popularization of coordinated separates for both day and evening. These separates, such as ...

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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Baird's Division

U.S.A.

Baird's Division.

Right of Assault.

Nov. 25, 1863.

Marker is on North Crest Road south of Brown Wood Drive, on the left when traveling north.

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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 ...

The Davenport Home

This house was built ca 1778.

Daniel (1755-1807) and Sarah Nichols (1756-?) were the first Davenports to occupy this home. They were wed in 1786, and from this union came: Elizabeth Warrington, Eunice Arnold, Priscilla Long, Nancy Bateman and Asenath Davenport.

The ...