General Johnston's men paid off and mustered out near here, May 1-2, 1865, after surrender near Durham, April 26.
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"Johnny Appleseed of the West." Travelled to Oregon 1847 with West Coast's first grafted apple trees. Till 1822 he lived 2 miles NE.
Regulator leader & poet. He wrote satirical songs motivating opposition to abusive officials. Fought at Battle of Alamance, 1771. Lived nearby.
Leader during War of the Regulation, 1768-1771; a reformer and pamphleteer. Later in Whiskey Rebellion in Pa. Lived nearby.
Chartered 1828; opened 1836. Jonathan Worth, N.C. governor (1865-68), its president. Supplied clothing for Confederate war effort. 2 mi. N.
This street is the route of the Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.
Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.
Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.
Headquarters, 1781-82, of David Fanning, Tory leader. Owner, Harmon Cox, led area Regulators. Mill was 1/2 mile south.
Mother of Separate Baptist churches across the South. Founded by Shubal Stearns, 1755. His grave is two miles south.