Gates County
7 places on the trail: 7 highway markers.
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- A-31EARLY EXPLORATIONIn 1622 an expedition from Jamestown, Va., led by John Pory, explored the Chowan River area.
- A-24FIRST POST ROADThe road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed ...
- A-17GEORGE WASHINGTONOwned a tract of land nearby. He surveyed and formed a company to drain a part of the Dismal Swamp, 1763.
- A-35NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIANORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote re...