Topics Related to Wake County

President of National Farmers' Alliance, 1889-1892; began Progressive Farmer, 1886; a founder of N.C.S.U. and Meredith College. House is here.

Spanish-American War camp, 95 acres, named for the Confederate general, was located here. Only U.S. Army camp in the state, 1898.

Chartered 1887. Opened 1889 as a land grant college. Since 1931 campus of Consolidated University.

Chartered in 1835 and completed in 1840. Length 85 miles. Its southern terminus was 400 ft. W.

Est. 1833. Horses hauled granite for the Capitol over a railroad from a quarry 1 1/4 miles S.E.

Journalist, editor, and publisher. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1913-1918. His birthplace stood 400 yards north.

African American teacher, preacher, & Revolutionary War veteran. Taught free black & prominent white students in school nearby.

The small kitchen in which the seventeenth President of the United States was born stands 64 yards west.

Founded by Presbyterian elder Wm. Peace 1857 as school for women; opened 1872. Main building used as Confederate hospital & by Freedmen's Bureau.

Completed 1816. Vance was the last governor to reside there, 1862-5. Stood 50 yards south.