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Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.
Brigadier General during the Revolution, member of Provincial Congress and of Continental Congress. Site of home, Mt. Gallant, 1/4 mi. S.W.
Chartered in 1883 as Central Institute and in 1887 as Littleton Female College. Burned 1919. Was located here.
Opened in 1857 on the site of the Franklin Academy, chartered 1787. Now a Methodist junior college, coeducational.
President Washington was a visitor in the town of Halifax, on April 16-17, 1791.
President Washington spent the night, April 18, 1791, in the town of Tarboro.
Longest railroad in the world when completed in 1840. Length 161 1/2 mi. Terminus was nearby.
Chartered 1835, completed 1840. Gaston, its terminal town, now extinct, was 3 mi. N.E.
Famous health resort, social and recreational center, in nineteenth century. 4 1/2 miles southeast.
Governor, 1893-1897. First president of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance. Bracebridge Hall, his home, 1 mi. N.