Henderson County
15 places on the trail: 15 highway markers.
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
The young state, 1790-1860
- P-1CALVARY CHURCH EPISCOPALBuilt 1859. Grave of "Bill" Nye. Memorials to many famous southerners.
- P-20FRENCH BROAD BAPTIST CHURCHOrganized before 1792. Present building is here. First building stood 1 mile south.
- P-28GUN SHOP AND FORGEIron works set up four mi. W. by Philip Sitton after 1804. Source for manufacture of rifles by Philip Gillespie. Both op...
- P-62SHAWS CREEK CHURCH AND CAMP GROUNDSMethodist. Congregation was organized at a camp meeting ca. 1810, on land donated by James Johnson. Church, 1905, is .3 ...
- P-31ST. JOHN IN THE WILDERNESSEpiscopal Church, built 1833-34 as a private chapel. Given to Diocese of North Carolina, 1836. Enlarged in 1852.
- P-25VANCE-CARSON DUELOn Nov. 5, 1827, Robert B. Vance, former N.C. Congressman, was fatally wounded in a duel by Samuel P. Carson, his succes...
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- P-4C. G. MEMMINGERSecretary of the treasury of the Confederacy, from Charleston. Native of Germany. Summer home and grave nearby.
- P-52GEORGE TRENHOLMConfederate Secretary of Treasury, 1864-65; S.C. legislator, cotton broker and financier. Summer home "Solitude" stood 1...
- P-43JUDSON COLLEGEBaptist. Chartered in 1861 as Judson Female College; later coeducational. Operated 1882-1892 in building which stood thr...
- P-8STONEMAN'S RAIDOn a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. Cavalry passed through Hendersonville, Apr. 23, 1865.