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A coeducational college operated by the Society of Friends. Chartered as New Garden Boarding School in 1834. Opened in 1837.

Established by John M. Morehead, operated, 1840-1862, 1868-1871. Building, burned in 1872, stood at this site.

Presbyterian, organized about 1756. Present building, the third, was erected in 1827. Revolutionary soldiers buried here.

Presbyterian, organized about 1764. Synod of North Carolina formed here, 1813. The present building erected 1955.

Set up in the First Presbyterian Church to receive wounded from Battle of Bentonville, 1865, was here.

Chartered in 1891 as a land grant college for blacks. Since 1972 a campus of The University of North Carolina.

Ku Klux Klan members and American Nazis, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.

Member of Congress for 46 years from Illinois, Speaker of the House, 1903-11. His birthplace stood 1 1/2 miles southwest.

A section of the Fayetteville-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-1854, followed this route.

Members of the cabinet, fleeing south, occupied a railroad car near this spot, Apr. 11-15, 1865.