Northampton County
13 places on the trail: 13 highway markers.
People of Northampton County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
The young state, 1790-1860
- E-42LEMUEL BURKITTPastor Sandy Run Baptist Church, 1773-1807. A founder & historian, Kehukee Baptist Assn.; member N.C. convention, 1788. ...
- E-83SIR ARCHIEFoundation sire of American Thoroughbred race horses, including Timoleon, Boston, Lexington, & Man O'War. Died at Mowfie...
- E-6THOMAS BRAGGAttorney-General of Confederacy, Governor of N.C. 1855-59, U.S. Senator. Home stands one block north.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- E-64BOON'S MILLHere on July 28, 1863, a Confederate force repulsed a Union march on the vital Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Breastwor...
- E-91HENRY K. BURGWYN"Boy" Colonel 26th N.C. Regt. Killed at age 21 at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. Home stood 4 miles south.
- E-10MATT W. RANSOMConfederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico. Home stands 800 yards south.
The New South, 1878-1929
Modern North Carolina, 1930 on
- E-109BERNICE KELLY HARRIS 1891-1973Novelist, playwright, & storyteller of rural eastern N.C. Author, Purslane (1939), Sweet Beulah Land (1943). Grave 600 y...
- E-45GEORGE V. HOLLOMAN 1902-1946Colonel U.S. Air Force, World War II. Pioneer in developing automatic devices for airplane control. Home 150 yds. W.