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First president, Greensboro College, 1846-47. Led Somerville Female Institute, 1848-1892. He lived 100 yards N.
Before and after the Battle of Alamance, the Militia of Governor William Tryon camped nearby, along Alamance Creek, May 13-19, 1771.
Governor, 1891-93; cotton mill owner. Sponsor of railroad development and state aid to education. Home stood 350 yards S.
Poet, author of "Fugitive Lines" and other works; lifelong educator; president of Peace Institute, 1907-12. Home stood here.
Negro educational and religious leader. Founder of a college (1910), now N.C. Central University, its president to 1947. Grave is 1 1/2 miles S.E.
Officer in Revolution. Member, N.C. Provincial Congress & legislature. Founded Rochester, N.Y., 1811. Home was nearby.
Teacher in Piedmont area from 1819 to 1867; operated own school in Alamance County, 1851-67. Home is 1 mile, grave is 3 1/2 miles northeast.
Brigadier general of North Carolina militia, member House of Commons, conventions 1788, 1789, and U.S. Congress. His home stood nearby.
Founded 1910 by James E. Shepard for Negroes. State liberal arts college, 1925-1969. Now a regional university.
Founded as Elon College by the Christian Church in 1889. Coeducational. Burned in 1923; rebuilt 1923-26.