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An American Indian tribe linked to a settlement primarily in the northern Piedmont region straddling Person County, N.C., and Halifax County, Va., soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
An American Indian tribe linked to settlements primarily in Sampson and Harnett counties soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
An American Indian tribe linked to settlements in southeastern North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
A pair of beach resorts for Black families organized in North Carolina before desegregation will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.Seabreeze and Freeman Beach were two pioneering beach resorts established in New Hanover County in 1922 and 1951, respectively. Closely related to each other geographically, and consequently considered by some to be the same, they provided summertime leisure for thousands of Black visitors from North Carolina and other parts of the country during the Jim Crow era, when beach resorts were racially segregated.
An American Indian tribe linked to settlements along the Eno River in central North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
The hard labor responsible for the construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
A culturally significant archaeological site in Robeson County soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
The Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker during a ceremony Friday, April 19 at 11 a.m., at the
The death of an African American soldier in Durham, N.C., soon will be commemorated with an N.C. Highway Historical Marker.In 1944, Private First Class Booker T. Spicely, who was stationed at Camp Butner, boarded a Durham city bus owned and operated by Duke Power Company. After Spicely objected to segregated seating, he disembarked at West Club Boulevard and what is now Berkeley Street. The white driver, Herman Lee Council, followed Spicely, who was unarmed, off the bus and shot him twice at close range in view of bus passengers.
A highly decorated war veteran from North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.Lt. Gen. Robert Sink, a career U.S. Army officer who served in both World War II and the Korean War, was born in 1905 in Lexington, N.C. He attended Trinity College (now Duke University) for a year before transferring to the United States Military Academy at West Point where he graduated in 1927 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.