The Alabama Theatre

Built 1927

Built by the Publix Theater division of Paramount Studios. This movie palace opened on December 26th, 1927. The theatre, in Spanish / Moorish design by Graven and Mayger of Chicago, seated 2500 in a five story, three-tiered auditorium. Paramount's ...

O.C. Bruton Store

Later Peidmont Grocery & Market

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Deptartment of the Interior

Marker is on North Main Street north of East Allenton Street (North Carolina Route 731), on the left when traveling north.

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Dairy Barn

Circa 1941

This site was the location of the first commercial dairy in Mesquite, which began operating circa 1941. The barn was used by over twenty families in the community. According to a schedule, they would drive their cows to the ...

McAulay Bros. Store

In 1898 George Thomas McAulay Sr. and his brother William Aulay McAulay began a general mercantile business that would last until their deaths in 1943

Their original wooden store building was replaced by this brick building structure in 1909.

Marker is on ...

Bat Caves

Cave History

Workers for the Hagensieck brewery created these cave openings around 1867 using picks, shovels and blasting powder. They used the caves to store ice and beer until the brewery closed in 1888. Hundreds of bats used the caves until ...

Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates

Carolina Legends

The great tap dancer Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates began his career in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. After a cotton gin accident took his leg, many felt his life was over. Through perseverance and determination, Peg Leg Bates is known ...

Battle of Rader's Farm

May 18, 1863

In memory of

18 U.S. Soldiers

killed in action

3 miles north of this park

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A Remarkable Collection 1670-1700

Who discarded refuse into this ditch and why may never be known. The ditch was full or artifacts dating to about 1670-1700, including 10 “HH” wine bottle seals, over 1,000 clay pipe pieces, three window leads dated 1669, and the ...

Company B - Korean War Memorial

278th INF RCT

Korean War

1950 - 1952

Akins, Edward C. • Amos, Fred J. Jr. • Anderson, Johnny R. • Arden, Calvin E. • Beeler. Paul L. • Blair, Richard L. • Bowman, Allen L. • Brewer, Walter G. • Brown, Virgil ...

Bullet Hill School

Bullet Hill School, 1789 One of New England’s Oldest Schoolhouses Still in Use

Marker is on Main Street North (U.S. 6) 0.1 miles north of Heritage Road & Old Waterbury Road, on the right when traveling south.

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