Pender County
20 places on the trail: 20 highway markers.
People of Pender County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- D-46EDWARD MOSELEY ca. 1682-1749Published landmark map, 1733. Surveyor general; chief justice of General Court. Member of colonial Councils and Assembli...
- D-32GEORGE BURRINGTON ca. 1682-1759Colonial governor, 1724-1725, 1731-1734; opened lower Cape Fear region to settlement. His home was 3/4 mile east.
- D-63MAURICE MOORELeader in Tuscarora and S.C. Indian Wars. One of original Cape Fear settlers. Founded Brunswick, 1726. His plantation wa...
- D-7SAMUEL ASHE 1725-1813Governor, 1795-1798; one of the first three state judges; president, Council of Safety, 1776. His grave is 3 miles east.
- D-52SAMUEL SWANNSpeaker of assembly nearly 20 years, leader popular party, compiler first printed revisal of N.C. laws (1752). Home stoo...
- D-33STAG PARKNamed by Barbadian explorers, 1663. Home of Gov. George Burrington and Samuel Strudwick, colonial official. The house st...
- D-34WELSH TRACTAbout 1730 a group of Welsh from the colony of Pennsylvania settled in this area, between the Northeast and Cape Fear ri...
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
- D-10ALEXANDER LILLINGTONRevolutionary leader, Whig colonel in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, 1776. His grave is 9 miles northeast.
- D-26JAMES MOORECommander of Whigs in Moore's Creek campaign, 1776, brigadier general North Carolina troops at Charleston. Died 1777. Hi...
- D-6MOORE'S CREEK BRIDGEFirst battle of the Revolution in North Carolina, Feb. 27, 1776. Tories defeated. U.S. Military Park, 5 mi. S.W.
- D-106TIMOTHY BLOODWORTHU.S. Senator, 1795-1801; member, U.S. House, in First Congress, 1790-91. Opposed ratification of U.S. Constitution, 1788...
The young state, 1790-1860
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
The New South, 1878-1929
- D-121SAINTS PETER AND PAUL RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHSaint Helena, est. in 1905 as an agricultural colony for Italians, was populated, 1923-1932, by immigrants from Russia &...
- D-117VAN EEDENJewish refugees from Nazi Germany lived, 1939-46, at agricultural colony founded in 1909 and revived by Alvin Johnson. T...