Richmond County
13 places on the trail: 13 highway markers.
People of Richmond County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- K-42CARTLEDGE CREEK BAPTIST CHURCHOriginally Dockery's Meeting House, about 1774. Baptist State Convention, 1833, voted here to found Wake Forest Institut...
- K-23NORTH CAROLINA-SOUTH CAROLINANORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote re...
- K-58PEE DEE MEETINGQuaker meeting organized, 1755. Westward migration led to decline by the 1840s. Cemetery located 1 1/2 mi. west.
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
The young state, 1790-1860
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
The New South, 1878-1929
- K-50CAMERON MORRISON 1869-1953Governor, 1921-1925; State legislator; U.S. Senator & Congressman; mayor of Rockingham. Birthplace was 6 mi. S.
- K-37CAMERON MORRISON SCHOOLState home and school for boys, opened 1925. Gives academic, vocational, and agricultural training. Three miles W.
- K-46HAMLET STATIONBuilt in 1900 to serve Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Depot was major stop for passengers on east-west & north-south rail l...
- K-53N.C. FARMERS' ALLIANCEOrganized by statewide convention of delegates in Rockingham, Oct. 4, 1887. Leonidas L. Polk elected first secretary.
Modern North Carolina, 1930 on
- K-31JOHN COLTRANE 1926-1967Jazz saxophonist and composer; influential stylist. Work spanned bebop to avant garde. Born one block S.W.
- KK-2TOWN CREEK INDIAN MOUND STATE HISTORIC SITESite of American Indian civic-ceremonial village, with platform mound, dating to circa 1,000 C.E. Studied by archaeologi...