Topics Related to Vance County

Graves of 52 soldiers individually marked, who died in the Kittrell Springs Hotel hospital 1864-65, are 1/2 mi. NE.

Textile mill 100 yds. N.E. target of strike, 1958-61. Effort failed, led to bombings that bolstered antiunionism.

Built buggies, 1899; by 1907, automobiles; later tractors, buses, and, during WWII, trucks for military. Shop 3/4 mi. S.E. closed 1952.

Aviation pioneer & first woman to parachute from an airplane, 1913. Demonstrated uses of parachutes to Army, 1914. Grave 200 yds. N.

A pioneer in field of organized nursing. In 1902 she founded the N.C. Nurses' Association. Home was 7/10 mile W.

Document issued June 6, 1765, protesting abuses by local officials. Later spurred the Regulator movement. Author, George Sims, lived nearby.

Jurist and educator. Member of first N.C. Supreme Court; Chief Justice, 1829-1833. His grave is 1/2 mi. W.

Noted winter health resort patronized by Northern hunters and tuberculosis patients. Opened 1871; burned 1893. Site is 1/2 mi. W.

Founder of Transylvania Colony (Ky.) & Nashville (Tenn.), author Cumberland Compact (1780), judge, member N.C. Council of State. Grave 1 mi. N.

Parish established in 1746. Present building, completed in 1773, stands 200 yards W.