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State supervisor of Black elementary schools, 1915-1934. Est. N.C. Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers. Was Gates Co. Jeanes Supervisor, here.

N.C. Secretary of State, 1936-1989. Advocate for State Highway Patrol. Drafted Speaker Ban law in 1963. Born 2 ½ mi. S.

North Carolina / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1775, b/w VIRGINIA / First permanent English colony in America, 1607; one of thirteen original states. Richmond, the capital, was seat of Confederate government.

A Confederate brigadier general at age 23, state auditor, a member of Convention of 1875. His grave is 700 yds. west.

In 1622 an expedition from Jamestown, Va., led by John Pory, explored the Chowan River area.

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

Owned a tract of land nearby. He surveyed and formed a company to drain a part of the Dismal Swamp, 1763.