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The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.
A detachment of United States troops burned Winton on February 20, 1862. The first town in N.C. to be burned during the Civil War.
Women in this town led by Penelope Barker in 1774 resolved to boycott British imports. Early and influential activism by women.
Culpeper and Durant led a revolt against British trade laws, seized the government 1677, 2 mi. SE.
Home of William Hardy Murfree, member of U.S. Congress, 1813-1817; N.C. House, 1805 & 1812; presidential elector, 1812. House stands 1 block N.
Opened 1848 as Chowan Baptist Female Institute. Became four-year college, 1992. A university since 2006. Two blocks south.
Historian, legislator, superintendent U.S. Mint at Charlotte, state treasurer, minister to Nicaragua, born 1806 in brick house 300 yds. N.
Owned a tract of land nearby. He surveyed and formed a company to drain a part of the Dismal Swamp, 1763.
Commissioners drove the first stake for the Virginia-Carolina boundary, Mar. 18, 1728, three miles N.E., across Currituck Sound.