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Roman Catholic. Liberal arts coeducational college. Founded, 1876, by Order of St. Benedict. One mile north.

Governor of North Carolina, 1945-1949. State legislator. Promoted good roads and rural electrification. Grave is 3 miles S.E.

Organized before 1797 by German settlers from Pennsylvania. Present building, erected 1950, stands 2 1/2 miles south.

Founder of High Shoals Iron Works about 1795. One of first producers of pig iron by charcoal process. Revolutionary patriot. Buried 20 yards W.

Founded in 1880 by the Evangelical & Reformed Church as a school for women. Closed in 1916. Stood 300 yards east.

Well-known guide and trapper. Helped survey Santa Fe Trail. Guided the ill-fated Fremont expedition of 1848. Was born near here in 1787.

Coeducational, liberal arts. Affiliated with Evangelical & Reformed Church. Opened 1/2 mi. N., 1851. Moved to Salisbury, 1925, & enlarged.

Named for G.M. Dallas. First seat of Gaston County, 1846-1911; site of Gaston College, now extinct. Courthouse built 1848 is here.

Fashionable "watering place," a recreational and social center prior to 1861. The hotel stood five miles northeast.

United States Senator, 1945-54, congressman, governor, N.C. legislator, lawyer, editor. Home is 1 mi., grave 1.2 mi., N.E.