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First Masonic lodge in North Carolina. Est. in 1754. Building erected 1804, used until 1825, is one block west.
Organized on June 25, 1903, at Seashore Hotel nearby. First president was Samuel Wittkowsky.
Organizer & Sec.-Treas. of State Board of Health, 1877-1892. Founded N.C. Medical Journal in 1878. Home was 1 block west.
Oldest Federated Women's Club in state; chartered 1896; organized in house 6 1/2 miles southwest.
Founded in 1866; oldest men's social club in N.C. Guilford F. Dudley, first president. Building here in use since 1913.
Built 1855-1858 as city hall and as theater for the Thalian Association, an amateur theatrical company formed c. 1788.
A founder of State Medical Society, 1849, head of Confederate Hospital at Wilson, 1st president State Board of Health, 1879. Home stood here.
First African American Masonic lodge in N.C.; est. 1865. Erected in 1870, the building was moved here in 1920s.
Est. 1929 in response to increased traffic & accidents. First training school was held here; graduated 27 officers.
Organized at Teachers’ Assembly Hall, nearby, July 24, 1897. Thomas Battle, first president.