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Crusader for education. President, UNC, 1896-1900; Tulane, 1900-04; Virginia, 1904-31. This was his birthplace.

Roman Catholic priest, pioneer Home Missionary of N.C. Co-founder of "Maryknoll Fathers," a foreign mission society. Birthplace (1860) 1 bl. E.

Capt., U.S. Navy. After victories in War of 1812, he and his sloop Wasp were lost at sea. His home was 2 blocks W.

Served the Confederacy as a senator, 1862-64, & as the attorney general, 1864-65. His birthplace was three miles east.

About 1730 a group of Welsh from the colony of Pennsylvania settled in this area, between the Northeast and Cape Fear rivers.

Named by Barbadian explorers, 1663. Home of Gov. George Burrington and Samuel Strudwick, colonial official. The house stood 3/4 mi. E.

Colonial governor, 1724-1725, 1731-1734; opened lower Cape Fear region to settlement. His home was 3/4 mile east.

The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.

NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w SOUTH CAROLINA / Formed in 1712 from part of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was first settled by the English in 1670. One of the 13 original states.

Fought, Feb. 20-21, 1865, between U.S. Colored Troops and Confederates. Last engagement before the fall of Wilmington. Earthworks 300 yds. N.E.