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An independent women’s college chartered 1891 as Baptist Female University. Named 1909 for education advocate Thos. Meredith. Campus here since 1926.

Built 1800-1801 by John Haywood, N.C. treasurer, 1787-1827. Operated now by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in State of N.C.

Episcopal school for girls. Established 1842 by Rev. Aldert Smede on the site of an earlier Episcopal boys school.

Collection began with 1851 geological survey; a museum since 1879; H. H. Brimley, curator from 1895 to 1946.

Site of Confederate hospital, U.S. Army barracks, Confederate Soldiers' Home, 1891-1938.

Founded 1865 by Baptist missionary Henry Martin Tupper. Chartered 1875; named for benefactor Elijah Shaw of Mass.

In the Governor's Palace April 24-27, 1865, Grant conferred with Sherman and approved new terms for surrender of Johnston's Confederate Army.

Breastworks were thrown up around Raleigh, 1863, by order of Governor Vance, for protection against Federal raids. Remains are 1/3 mile W.

Commissioners of North Carolina's capital met officers of Sherman's army near this spot, on April 13, 1865, and surrendered the city.