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Davie County

6 places on the trail: 6 highway markers.

Exploration and settlement (2)Writers, artists and musicians (2)The Revolution (1)Government and law (1)Work and industry (1)African American history (1)

Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774

M-47BOONE TRACTIn 1753 Lord Granville granted 640 acres on Bear Creek to Squire Boone who sold it in 1759 to his son Daniel. This was a...
M-3SQUIRE AND SARAH BOONEParents of frontiersman Daniel Boone settled in N.C. ca. 1751, purchased land grant nearby, 1753. Squire died, 1765; and...

Revolution and founding, 1775-1789

M-27JOHN STOKESFirst U.S. Judge for District of N.C., 1790, captain in Revolution, state legislator, member of convention of 1789. His ...

The young state, 1790-1860

M-44COKESBURY SCHOOLShort lived. The first Methodist school in North Carolina. Began about 1790. Was two miles east.

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

M-33HINTON R. HELPERAuthor of The Impending Crisis, a bitterly controversial book which denounced slavery; U.S. Consul at Buenos Aires, 1861...

Modern North Carolina, 1930 on

M-54HUGH T. LEFLER 1901-1981Preeminent historian of North Carolina, author, & editor. Professor at UNC, 1935-1972. His birthplace is one mile east.