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Confederate General, famed for charge at Gettysburg. His grave is 8 miles south.

U.S. Senator, 1855-1858. Federal and Confederate judge. Member of state conventions in 1835 and 1861. Lived 1 block N.

A Confederate ironclad commanded by James W. Cooke, helped recapture Plymouth. Was sunk 600 ft. N., Oct. 27, 1864.

Formed northern half of colony of North Carolina. Its southern boundary was surveyed in 1743 to a point near here.

Head of U.S. Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba, 1900-01. Lived here as a young man. House 200 feet south.

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

In 1728 the Virginia-Carolina boundary was first surveyed from the Atlantic coast to a spot two hundred twenty miles west of here.

Confederate troops led by Gen. Robert F. Hoke, aided by ram Albemarle, retook Union-occupied town, April 17-20, 1864.

Formed northern half of colony of North Carolina. Survey of southern boundary began 28 1/2 miles east across sound, 1743.

In North Carolina was set up near this spot about 1700. Books sent from England by Rev. Thos. Bray.