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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.
A Methodist Protestant institution. Opened in 1856, made co-educational in 1878, closed in 1924. Building stands 1 mi. N.
NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w SOUTH CAROLINA / Formed in 1712 from part of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was first settled by the English in 1670. One of the 13 original states.
NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w SOUTH CAROLINA / Formed in 1712 from part of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was first settled by the English in 1670. One of the 13 original states.