Topics Related to Historical Markers

Rocky River Church (H-73)

Baptist, organized about 1757. Used by Regulators for meetings after 1768. Stands 200 yards east.

Abraham Rencher (H-72)

Congressman; Minister to Portugal; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, 1857-1861; poet and essayist. Buried two blocks West.

John S. Ravenscroft (H-71)

First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of N.C., 1823-1830. Active in the revival of the Church. Interred in church 50 yds. south.

Medical Society of North Carolina (H-70)

Successor to earlier group founded in 1799. Formed here in 1849. Dr. Edmund Strudwick was first president.

William Boylan (H-69)

President of Raleigh and Gaston Railroad; president of the State Bank; publisher of the Raleigh "Minerva" 1803-1810. Home is 3 blks. S.W.

Wake Forest University (H-68)

Baptist; coeducational. Opened as Wake Forest College, 1834. Moved to Winston-Salem, 1956. University since 1967.

Oakwood Cemetery (H-67)

Governors Aycock, Bragg, Fowle, Holden, Swain, and Worth, other notables and Confederates buried there. 3 blocks E.

Central Prison (H-66)

State prison site since 1869. Original buildings completed in 1884. First supt., W. J. Hicks. New facility finished 1983.

North Carolina Dental Society (H-65)

Organized in 1856 in the Guion Hotel, which stood here. Dr. W. F. Bason, Haw River, first president.

Willis Smith (H-64)

United States Senator, 1950-53, speaker N.C. House of Representatives, president American Bar Assn. Home is 100 yds. W., grave is two miles S.E.