Topics Related to World War I

“The Flying Parson.” Won first Transcontinental Air Race, 1919. Was WWI test pilot and daredevil. Buried 2 miles west.

Physician; innovator in treatment of tuberculosis. Served in Europe, WWI; operated a sanatorium here, 1908-1918.

Nurse anesthetist. Her WWI service influenced British medical corps to train female anesthetists, 1918. Home was here.

Model logging village established in 1905. Supplied lumber to WWI effort & Champion paper mill. Flooded by Lake Logan, 1932. Was here.

World War I soldier, aviator. First pilot of Escadrille Lafayette to shoot down enemy plane. Killed in action, Sept. 23, 1916. Home 200 yds. W.

Health resort since 1800. Name changed from Warm Springs, 1886. Internment camp for Germans in World War I was here.

A U.S. Army air base, 1941-1946. Named for Maj. William Morris, WWI pilot. The 5,000 acre facility became airport at this site.

First female physician licensed in N.C., 1885. Acting assistant surgeon at Camp Greene during WWI. Office was here.

One of two North Carolinians awarded Medal of Honor for valor in World War I (France, 1918). Born 1 blk. SE.

Commander-in-chief of Allied armies, 1918, made a speech at the Union County Courthouse, on December 9, 1921.