Topics Related to Wake County

Colonel of black N.C. regiment in war with Spain; edited Raleigh Gazette; legislator. Home was 25 ft. W.

Black legislator & orator; member 1868 convention; a founder of Republican Party & Union League in N.C. Home was 1 block W.

Established 1812 under Wm. Hill, Sec. of State; James F. Taylor first state librarian, 1843. Moved here in 1968.

Organized as the N.C. Historical Commission in 1903; R. D. W. Connor, first secretary. Moved to this building, 1968.

N.C. Chief Justice, 1878-1889; state legislator; U.S. & Confederate Congressman. Home was one blk. W.; grave 3/4 mi. E.

Railroad builder and financier. Vice-president, Southern Railroad; superintendent, North Carolina Railroad. Home is here.

U.S. negotiator in China for 30 years. Consul in Japan and China. Editor, author, and lawyer. His home was 2 blocks E.

Begun 1910. Early Negro teacher training school. Named for benefactor. Later used as elementary school. Closed in 1966.

Outgrowth of N.C. Art Society. In 1947 state funded purchase of art. Museum opened, 1956. Moved here, 1983.