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U.S. Marine Corps Air Station activated 1941 as Cunningham Field for first USMC aviator A.A. Cunningham. MCAS Cherry Point since May 1942.
U.S. Revenue Cutter built in N.C., 1791. Ship was commissioned in 1792 by Revenue Marine (now U.S. Coast Guard), 1/4 mi. W.
Brig. Gen. Gabriel Rains and Col. George Rains, graduates of West Point, inventors of explosives for Confederacy. This was their boyhood home.
Army Coast Artillery Training Center, World War II. Named for Richmond P. Davis, native of Statesville.
Community was founded here in 1863 as resettlement camp for formerly enslaved people. It was named for Horace James, U.S. Army Chaplain.
National Guard camp, 1906-1918; later site of U.S. Navy base, and first U.S. Coast Guard air station, 1920-1921.
Union forces led by General John G. Parke landed here, March 29, 1862, during the Fort Macon campaign.
First school chartered in N.C. Assembly levied a tax for its support in 1766. Present building was completed in 1810.
"Brad's Drink," which he created in pharmacy here, was marketed as Pepsi-Cola after 1898.
Florentine sailing under French flag. His voyage along the coast in 1524 marked the first recorded European contact with North Carolina.