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Justice of N.C. Supreme Court; Federal District Judge; state legislator. Grave is 3.5 mi. west.
Educational reformer, historian and author. Secty. of Child Labor Committee, 1904-1916. Home was 1/2 blk. west.
Primitive Baptist leader & for 50 years editor of Zion's Landmark. Office & home was 1/2 blk. NE.
Orphanage and school opened in 1892. Provided for 960 children before closing in 1971. The original 20-acre tract is now a city park.
Last Sec'y of War & first Sec'y of Army, 1947-49. Attorney; state senator; brig. gen., 1943-45. Led military justice reform. Home was here.
Organized May 14, 1873. J. A. Engelhard elected first president at meeting held near this spot.
Educator, botanist, C.S.A. chaplain, county official, & Presbyterian minister. His grave is 4 mi. West.
Led U.S. Marine Corps Third Division assaults on Bougainville & Guam, 1943-44. Received Navy Cross. Born 1 block S.E.
Presbyterian. Organized about 1756. Served by Hugh McAden, Robert Tate, & others. Third building on site 10 yds. north.
Plantation of Thomas S. Kenan, legislator & U.S. Congressman, whose son, Owen Rand, legislator, Confederate Congressman, and major, was born here.