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Author of The Mind of The South. Editor & journalist. His grave is located 1600 ft. N.

Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1897-1901; president of Catawba College, 1901-04; newspaper editor. Home 3 blocks E.

Southern poet, died in this house, September 7, 1881.

Author of The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain, 1892; educator and humorist. Grave one block South.

Artist, teacher, author. His paintings hang in the National Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, and other galleries. His home is here.

Poet Laureate of N.C., 1953-1981; printer and editor. Published newspaper, The Fool-Killer, 1910-29. Grave 5 mi. S.

Preeminent historian of North Carolina, author, & editor. Professor at UNC, 1935-1972. His birthplace is one mile east.

Humorist, minister, and editor. Wrote Fisher's River Scenes (1859), a collection of folk tales with local settings. He was born 2 miles N.W.

African American artist and writer. Many of his collages were inspired by childhood memories of N.C. Born 1 block N.W.

Nationally known writer, humorist, & civil rights advocate. Published The Carolina Israelite, 1944-1968. Lived 1 block N.E.