FRAUD ALERT
Be aware of multiple fraudulent text scams requesting payment for NCDMV fees, fines or tolls. NCDMV will NEVER request payment by text. Please report it as spam and delete. Learn More
Topics Related to Historical Markers
"Strictly Stock" race, June 19, 1949, launched NASCAR sanctioned series. 3/4-mile dirt track was 200 yds. W.
Born in West Africa's Gold Coast (now Ghana), James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey enrolled at Livingstone College in 1898 & later joined the faculty. In 1920 he returned to Africa where he influenced the course of post-colonialism. In 1905 Aggrey married Rose Douglass, teacher long active across the state in groups advocating education, social welfare, & racial harmony. This was their home.
Professor & Dean, Biddle University. Organizer and fundraiser for Rosenwald program in N.C., 1921- 1935. He lived ¼ mi. S.
Presbyterian. Est. 1867 by Luke Dorland to educate Negro women, Scotia Seminary merged in 1930 with Barber Memorial Institute. Coed since 1954.
Est. in 1867 as Biddle Memorial Institute for freedmen. Became a university, 1877. Present name adopted in 1923.
One of two North Carolinians awarded Medal of Honor for valor in World War I (France, 1918). Born 1 blk. SE.
Charlotte was center of region's gold rush after 1825. Rudisill & Saint Catherine, among largest mines, were near here.
Gold discovery in 1825 by Mathias Barringer launched the state's subsurface gold mining industry. Site 2 mi. W.
Archaeological site key to understanding earliest native population. Its occupation dates to ca. 10,000 B.C. One mi. N.E.
Cannon Mills president, 1921-1962; advanced the marketing of textiles. Civic leader and health care benefactor. Grave is one mile south.