Topics Related to Granville County

Trading Path (G-31)

Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.

Horner School (G-27)

Academy for boys est. 1851 by James Horner, here. Was later military school. After 1914 fire it moved to Charlotte.

Thomas Person (G-17)

Leader of popular movements: Regulation, Revolution, and Antifederalism. His home in Goshen stood five miles north.

Oxford Orphanage (G-7)

Opened by Masons, 1873, with John H. Mills first head, in plant of St. Johns College, which they had operated, 1858-1861.

John Penn 1740-1788 (G-1)

Location: US 15 in Stovall
County: Granville
Original Date Cast: 1936

(Note: The John Penn marker was the first sign erected under the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, on January 10, 1936.)

Henry Plummer Cheatham, Educator and Advocate for Equality

On December 27, 1857, Republican Congressman, educator, and conservative and diplomatic advocate for racial equality Henry Plummer Cheatham was born with slave status near Henderson.

John Penn’s Second Distinction

On January 10, 1936, the first state highway marker was dedicated. The first marker was placed in the small Granville County town of Stovall to commemorate the life of John Penn, an early political leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence.