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Organized on June 25, 1903, at Seashore Hotel nearby. First president was Samuel Wittkowsky.

Organizer & Sec.-Treas. of State Board of Health, 1877-1892. Founded N.C. Medical Journal in 1878. Home was 1 block west.

Oldest Federated Women's Club in state; chartered 1896; organized in house 6 1/2 miles southwest.

Founded in 1866; oldest men's social club in N.C. Guilford F. Dudley, first president. Building here in use since 1913.

Built 1855-1858 as city hall and as theater for the Thalian Association, an amateur theatrical company formed c. 1788.

A founder of State Medical Society, 1849, head of Confederate Hospital at Wilson, 1st president State Board of Health, 1879. Home stood here.

First African American Masonic lodge in N.C.; est. 1865. Erected in 1870, the building was moved here in 1920s.

Est. 1929 in response to increased traffic & accidents. First training school was held here; graduated 27 officers.

Organized at Teachers’ Assembly Hall, nearby, July 24, 1897. Thomas Battle, first president.

Headquarters and annual meeting-place, 1888-1900; razed 1934. The building stood here.