Organized May 14, 1873. J. A. Engelhard elected first president at meeting held near this spot.
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Educator, botanist, C.S.A. chaplain, county official, & Presbyterian minister. His grave is 4 mi. West.
Led U.S. Marine Corps Third Division assaults on Bougainville & Guam, 1943-44. Received Navy Cross. Born 1 block S.E.
Presbyterian. Organized about 1756. Served by Hugh McAden, Robert Tate, & others. Third building on site 10 yds. north.
Plantation of Thomas S. Kenan, legislator & U.S. Congressman, whose son, Owen Rand, legislator, Confederate Congressman, and major, was born here.
On March 26, 1830, the North Carolina Baptist State Convention was organized at the Gorham home which was near here.
Established in 1907 as state-supported normal school. A four-year college since 1920. A university since 1967.
On December 15-16, 1862, on a raid at Whitehall, Union troops led by Gen. J. G. Foster damaged the Confederate Ram "Neuse."
Original Free Will Baptist. Chartered in 1951 as junior college. Moved here, 1953. Senior college charter granted in 1982.
Member of N.C. Senate, 1829-1836; Speaker, 1833-1835. First governor of State of Florida, 1845-1849. Home was 1 mi. N.