Press Releases
Help Needed to Recover Missing Stoneman’s Raid Highway Historical Markers
The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, requests the public’s help in locating two missing highway historical markers. They both are related to Stoneman’s Raid.
Help Needed to Recover Missing Camp Lejeune Highway Historical Marker
The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, requests the public’s help in locating a missing historical marker. The marker was located on Lejeune Boulevard adjacent to the base in Jacksonville and it detailed the history of Camp Lejeune.
N.C. Highway Historical Marker to Honor Formerly Enslaved Entrepreneur
RALEIGH, N.C. – Born into slavery in Raleigh in 1803, Lunsford Lane worked industriously, started a business, and eventually bought his freedom.
N.C. Highway Historical Marker Honors Groundbreaking Tennis Club
The Algonquin Tennis Club was formed in 1922 in Durham to give aspiring African American tennis players a place to meet and play.
Help Needed to Recover Another Missing N.C. Highway Historical Marker
The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, requests the public’s help in locating a missing historical marker. The marker was located at US 70 at Eno River bridge northwest of Hillsborough. It identified Hart’s Mill, which was located outside of present-day Hillsborough and was the site of a large, well-publicized meeting of Regulators opposed to British rule in 1766.
N.C. Highway Historical Marker to Recognize Preservationist/Humorist
He was appointed North Carolina’s “Ambassador of Goodwill” by Gov. R. Gregg Cherry in 1949 and was so recognized by seven governors. The Washington, N.C.
Help Needed to Recover Missing N.C. Highway Historical Marker
The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, requests the public’s help in locating a missing historical marker.
Help Needed to Recover Missing N.C. Highway Historical Marker
The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, requests the public’s help in locating a missing historical marker.
N.C. Highway Historical Marker Recognizes Convalescent Hospital
In 1948 polio rapidly spread through North Carolina causing 147 deaths with 2,517 cases recorded. The Guilford County outbreak was the highest per capita both in the state and the nation.
N.C. Highway Historical Marker Recognizes Journalist Louis Austin
An example that the pen is mightier than the sword is journalist Louis Austin, who advocated for and advanced social justice and civil rights as publisher of the “Carolina Times” newspaper in Durha
