Press Releases

A prominent education leader who worked with African American students soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.

A group from Edgecombe County that stood up for the environment soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.The marker commemorating the group, Citizens for Responsible Zoning, will be dedicated during a ceremony on Saturday, April 12 at 11 a.m., at the East Carolina Agriculture & Education Center (1175 Kingsboro Rd., Rocky Mount). The marker will be installed at the intersection of Kingsboro and Antioch roads.

James Robert Walker Jr., a prominent civil rights attorney from northeastern North Carolina, soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.

A thwarted religious plot by local farmers to kill Gov. Richard Caswell in 1777 soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.

A Confederate attack on U.S. troops in eastern North Carolina in April 1864 that led to killing of Black soldiers and civilians will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.

An American Indian tribe that settled in southeastern North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.

An American Indian tribe that settled in northeastern North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.

The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission is accepting applications for a new round of Civil Rights Trail markers.