Topics Related to Guilford County

Launched the national drive for integrated lunch counters, Feb. 1, 1960, in Woolworth store 2 blocks south.

Writer, judge, & Union army officer. Member, constitutional convention, 1868. Lived 2 blocks S.

First air mail flight through N.C. landed here May 1, 1928. Charles Lindbergh, on Oct. 14, 1927, landed nearby to open field.

Meeting for worship was begun in 1751; became a Monthly Meeting, 1754. Present bldg. is here.

Lutheran. Founded 1903, and moved here in 1905; prepared black students for work in theology & education. Closed 1961.

World War II training camp and overseas replacement depot, 1943-1946. Over 330,000 servicemen were processed here. This is center of 652 acre site.

Ornithologist; teacher; internationally honored conservationist. Founded Audubon Society in N.C. Grave is 1/10 mi. N.E.

Operated by Clapp, Gates and Company. Made rifles and military supplies for N.C. and the Confederacy, 1861-64. Site 1/4 mi. E.

Congregation organized ca. 1771; fourth church erected in 1971 on site of original log structure.

Built 1786 by John Haley, blacksmith & sheriff, on the Petersburg-Salisbury Road. Later a tavern; now preserved as a museum.