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Strike by leaf workers, mostly black & female, June 17, 1943, 1/2 mile W., led to seven years of labor & civil rights activism by Local 22.
Moravian settlers in 1772 founded a school for girls, now a liberal arts college & academy. Campus is 1/2 mi. N.E.
Volunteer service group promoted suffrage, education, and other social, cultural causes. Founded 1902 one-half mi. SE.
Preparatory school for blacks founded 1902 by Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Named for Alice Freeman Palmer. Closed in 1971. Now state historic site.
Methodist. Begun 1874; reorganized as woman's college, 1926. Named for Lyman Bennett of Troy, N.Y. Campus 2 bl. S.
Established by John M. Morehead, operated, 1840-1862, 1868-1871. Building, burned in 1872, stood at this site.
First college chartered for women in North Carolina, 1838. Founded by Methodist Church.
Est. in 1891 as a normal school; became Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, 1932. Coeducational since 1963.
Hostess and social leader. Wife of President James Madison. Saved artifacts from White House fire, 1814. Born 1 1/2 miles N.E.
Built in 1915 for the widows and daughters of state's Confederate veterans. Closed, 1981. Cemetery 300 yds. W.