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Anna McNeill Whistler, the mother of James Whistler, artist, was born in a house which stood one block east.

During World War II, 20,000 women trained for non-combat roles in the U.S. Marine Corps at facilities 4 1/2 mi. S.

Pioneer photographer of N.C. and the South. An advocate of equal rights for women. Began career ca. 1904 in this house where she was born.

Environmental activist. Stopped destruction of Jockey’s Ridge sand dune in 1973. Fundraised and lobbied to preserve as a N.C. State Park, 1975.

Native of Washington, Zurich graduate, head of a Boston hospital, 1st woman member N.C. Medical Society, 1872. Her girlhood home was here.

Novelist. Wrote Raleigh's Eden (1940), first of 12-volume "Carolina Series," based on early N.C. history. Her home, "Bandon," stood 1/2 mile northwest.

First woman known to have acted as attorney in an N.C. court, 1673. Appeared before Council in Perquimans Precinct.

Founded with Methodist support in 1853. Burned, 1877. Rebuilt 1881 and burned again in 1893. Site was 1 block south.

Women in this town led by Penelope Barker in 1774 resolved to boycott British imports. Early and influential activism by women.

Opened 1848 as Chowan Baptist Female Institute. Became four-year college, 1992. A university since 2006. Two blocks south.