Randolph County
13 places on the trail: 13 highway markers.
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- K-62HERMAN HUSBAND 1724-1795Leader during War of the Regulation, 1768-1771; a reformer and pamphleteer. Later in Whiskey Rebellion in Pa. Lived near...
- K-64REDNAP HOWELL d. 1787Regulator leader & poet. He wrote satirical songs motivating opposition to abusive officials. Fought at Battle of Alaman...
- K-5SANDY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCHMother of Separate Baptist churches across the South. Founded by Shubal Stearns, 1755. His grave is two miles south.
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
The young state, 1790-1860
- K-54CEDAR FALLS MILLChartered 1828; opened 1836. Jonathan Worth, N.C. governor (1865-68), its president. Supplied clothing for Confederate w...
- K-66HENDERSON LUELLING 1809-1878"Johnny Appleseed of the West." Travelled to Oregon 1847 with West Coast's first grafted apple trees. Till 1822 he lived...
- K-27PLANK ROADThis street is the route of the Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.
- K-3TRINITY COLLEGEStood here. Union Institute, 1839; Normal College, 1851; Trinity, 1859; Duke University, 1924. Moved to Durham, 1892.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Battlefields, sites and undated markers
- K-70HAM THE ASTROCHIMP
- K-18TRADING PATHColonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Caroli...
- K-19TRADING PATHColonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, ...