Brig. Gen. Gabriel Rains and Col. George Rains, graduates of West Point, inventors of explosives for Confederacy. This was their boyhood home.
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Community was founded here in 1863 as resettlement camp for formerly enslaved people. It was named for Horace James, U.S. Army Chaplain.
First school chartered in N.C. Assembly levied a tax for its support in 1766. Present building was completed in 1810.
"Brad's Drink," which he created in pharmacy here, was marketed as Pepsi-Cola after 1898.
Lawyer; member of N.C. legislature, 1881 & 1885. U.S. Congressman, 1897-1901. Born into slavery. Home stands 2 blocks N.
Site of Union outpost captured by Confederate Generals Hoke & Pickett on February 1, 1864. The earthworks are 300 yards North.
In America to be called and held in defiance of British orders met in this town, Aug. 25-27, 1774, with 71 delegates present.
Episcopal. Craven Parish created 1715. First Church erected 1750, this one in 1875. Communion service, given by George II, 1752, still in use. One block S.
John Stanly killed Richard Dobbs Spaight, former governor of North Carolina, in a duel near this spot, September 5, 1802.
Asst. Superintendent Public Instruction, 1868-70; a founder Livingstone College, 1885; Bishop A.M.E. Zion Church; founded St. Peters, 1864. One blk. N.