Topics Related to Beaufort County

Acting governor, 1753-54. Councilor, assemblyman, and Surveyor-General. Merchant in the Irish trade. His home was here.

Agricultural reformer, a founder of the State Fair, published and edited the "Farmer's Journal," 1852-53, in Bath. This was his home.

Secretary of the Navy, 1913-21; Ambassador to Mexico; editor; author. Birthplace stood here.

The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.

Site of Confederate batteries on Pamlico River which enabled Gen. D. H. Hill's forces to besiege Washington in spring of 1863. 5 mi. E.

The town was burned and shelled by evacuating United States troops in April, 1864.

Town seized by Union troops, Mar. 1862. Efforts to recapture it failed in 1862 & 1863. Union Army withdrew in Apr. 1864.

Native of Washington, Zurich graduate, head of a Boston hospital, 1st woman member N.C. Medical Society, 1872. Her girlhood home was here.

Formed northern half of colony of North Carolina. Its southern boundary was surveyed in 1743 to a point near here.

In North Carolina was set up near this spot about 1700. Books sent from England by Rev. Thos. Bray.