Topics Related to Historical Markers

Robert B. Glenn 1854-1920 (J-38)

Governor, 1905-1909; legislator. Champion of Prohibition and of railroad regulation. Home stood 1 block W.

Weitzell’s Mill (J-37)

Site of a skirmish between American forces under Col. O. H. Williams and British troops under Col. James Webster, Mar. 6, 1781, is 6 mi. E.

Oak Ridge Institute (J-36)

First building erected 1851-52. Opened during academic year 1852-53. Since 1929 Oak Ridge Military Institute.

Guilford College (J-35)

A coeducational college operated by the Society of Friends. Chartered as New Garden Boarding School in 1834. Opened in 1837.

Edgeworth Female Seminary (J-34)

Established by John M. Morehead, operated, 1840-1862, 1868-1871. Building, burned in 1872, stood at this site.

Buffalo Church (J-33)

Presbyterian, organized about 1756. Present building, the third, was erected in 1827. Revolutionary soldiers buried here.

Alamance Church (J-32)

Presbyterian, organized about 1764. Synod of North Carolina formed here, 1813. The present building erected 1955.

Winston-Salem State University (J-31)

Established for Negroes as Slater Industrial Academy, 1892. State supported since 1895; University since 1969.

Confederate Hospital (J-30)

Set up in the First Presbyterian Church to receive wounded from Battle of Bentonville, 1865, was here.

N.C. A&T University (J-29)

Chartered in 1891 as a land grant college for blacks. Since 1972 a campus of The University of North Carolina.