Nash County
12 places on the trail: 12 highway markers.
People of Nash County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
The young state, 1790-1860
- E-82COUNTRY DOCTOR MUSEUMChartered 1967 to honor the "old family doctor." Two doctors' offices, 1857 & 1887, restored with medical & apothecary a...
- E-89GOLD MINESOre discovered at farm of John Portis in 1831. Mine operated for about a century. Area mines yielded sizable volume of g...
- E-31LAFAYETTEOn his American tour, Lafayette spent the night of February 28, 1825, at the home of Henry Donaldson which stood near th...
- E-61P. T. BARNUMFirst stop of record with own circus troupe was 1/2 mile S.E., November 12-13, 1836. No show is recorded, but Barnum pre...
- E-7ROCKY MOUNT MILLSSecond cotton mill in State. Building begun, 1818. Federals burned, 1863. Soon rebuilt.
Modern North Carolina, 1930 on
- E-110HAROLD D. COOLEY 1897-1974U.S. House, 1934-1967. As chairman, Agriculture Committee, for 14 years, shaped postwar federal farm policy. Lived here.
- E-124KAY KYSER 1905-1985Bandleader, radio & TV personality, and host of the "Kollege of Musical Knowledge," 1938-1950. Childhood home of "Ol' Pe...
- E-72NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGEMethodist. Liberal arts, senior co-educational college. Chartered Oct., 1956; opened 1960.
- E-118OPERATION DIXIEBlack leaf house workers in eastern N.C. unionized in 1946. First pro-union vote, at tobacco factory 1 block W., precurs...