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State juvenile facility. Est. in 1918 to provide girls with educational and vocational training. Campus is 3 mi. south.
Member of Congress & State Senator. Planter and promoter of mining & manufacturing. Home here, grave 4/5 mi. west.
First head of Oxford Orphanage (1873-1884) & Mills Home. President Oxford Female College. His grave is 100 yds. N.
Jazz saxophonist and composer; influential stylist. Work spanned bebop to avant garde. Born one block S.W.
Author of Drums (1925), Marching On (1927), and other historical novels. Home, "Weymouth," now an arts center, 3/10 mi. E.
Established by local planters, later operated by Methodist Church. Building was 150 yds. W.
Brigadier general of militia, 1776-81, State senator, a commissioner to locate State capital. Grave is five miles S.
This street is the route of the Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.
This street is the route of the Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.
The route of the old Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54, crosses the highway near this point.