Topics Related to Historical Markers

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.

Edward W. Pou (H-63)

Congressman, 1901-1934, Chairman House Rules Committee during parts of administrations of Wilson, F. D. Roosevelt. Grave is 200 yds. south.

Campbell University (H-62)

Baptist. Founded in 1887 by James A. Campbell as Buie's Creek Academy. A university since 1979.

Union Headquarters (H-60)

Gen. H. W. Slocum, commanding the Union forces, located his headquarters in this field, March 16, 1865.

Josiah W. Bailey (H-59)

United States Senator, 1931-1946. A Baptist leader and editor of "The Biblical Recorder." Home was here.

Magnum Terrace (H-58)

Soil conservation land mark. Erosion-checking terrace built ca. 1885 by Priestley H. Mangum 2 mi. north. Technique adopted across the U.S.