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Governor, 1849-51. Whig Party leader. His law office, relocated & restored, stands 70 yds. N.
Loyalists under Col. David Fanning surprised & captured Patriot troops nearby at old Chatham courthouse in July 1781.
Formed northern half of colony of North Carolina. Southern boundary was surveyed to a point just south of here in 1746.
African American teacher, preacher, & Revolutionary War veteran. Taught free black & prominent white students in school nearby.
Governor, 1828-1830; state legislator; and Whig party leader. His grave is 400 yards W.
The small kitchen in which the seventeenth President of the United States was born stands 64 yards west.
After many victories, War of 1812, was lost at sea with his sloop Wasp. Lived at "Rockrest," 3 miles east.
Founded by Presbyterian elder Wm. Peace 1857 as school for women; opened 1872. Main building used as Confederate hospital & by Freedmen's Bureau.
Completed 1816. Vance was the last governor to reside there, 1862-5. Stood 50 yards south.
Authorized 1849, largely through work of Dorothea L. Dix, crusader for better care of the mentally ill. 500 yards southwest.