Topics Related to Historical Markers

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.

Greensboro Massacre (J-28)

Ku Klux Klan members and American Nazis, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.

Joseph G. Cannon (J-27)

Member of Congress for 46 years from Illinois, Speaker of the House, 1903-11. His birthplace stood 1 1/2 miles southwest.

Wright Tavern (J-26)

Built in 1816. Rare example of dog-run building. Operated by Wrights and Reids. Birthplace and home of Congressman J. W. Reid.

Land of Eden (J-25)

Near here ran southern line of estate of Wm. Byrd, Virginia planter, author, and surveyor of Va.-N.C. boundary line, 1728.