Topics Related to Wilson County

Journalist. Publisher of the Wilson Daily Times, 1956-1983. First woman to lead the N.C. Press Assoc. Lived here.

Manufacturer of farm & delivery wagons; est. 1903. Peak production was 15,000 per year. Factory was 1/4 mi. NE.

First Alcoholic Beverage Control store in N.C. opened here, July 2, 1935, ending Prohibition, state law since 1909.

U.S. minister to Liberia, 1898-1902; born into slavery. Pastor, St. John A.M.E. Zion Church in Wilson. Lived 1/10 mi. N.

Justice of N.C. Supreme Court; Federal District Judge; state legislator. Grave is 3.5 mi. west.

Educational reformer, historian and author. Secty. of Child Labor Committee, 1904-1916. Home was 1/2 blk. west.

Primitive Baptist leader & for 50 years editor of Zion's Landmark. Office & home was 1/2 blk. NE.

First Archivist of the U.S., 1934-41. Secretary of the N.C. Historical Commission, historian, author, and teacher. His birthplace stood here.

Confederate Major-General. Mortally wounded at Gettysburg. His birthplace stood 1.4 miles north.

Baptist. Founded 1756. Was moved 3 1/2 miles west in 1803. Early church site and graveyard are 350 yards south.