Warren County
23 places on the trail: 23 highway markers.
People of Warren County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
- E-44BENJAMIN HAWKINSMember Continental Congress, United States Senator, 1789-1795, U.S. Indian Agent to the Creek Nation, 1796-1816. Home wa...
- E-17JETHRO SUMNERBrigadier general in the Revolution. Commanded N.C. forces from 1781. A planter, he operated a tavern near here
- E-36WARRENTON MALE ACADEMYStood here. Chartered 1787, named Warrenton High School, 1898. Since 1923 a public school.
The young state, 1790-1860
- E-38BRAGG HOMEBoyhood home of Bragg brothers, Thomas, governor, 1855-9; Braxton, Confederate general, and John, U.S. Congressman. One ...
- E-14HORACE GREELEY 1811-1872Journalist & politician was married in Emmanuel Church on July 5, 1836, to Mary Youngs Cheney.
- E-86JACOB W. HOLT 1811-1880A chief architect-builder in town's 1845-61 boom era; worked in Greek Revival & Italianate styles. Home stands 1 block e...
- E-58JAMES TURNERGovernor, 1802-1805, United States Senator and state legislator. "Bloomsbury," his home, stood 2 miles north.
- E-93JOHN HALL 1767-1833One of three original justices of the N.C. Supreme Court, 1819-1832. Grave 1 block S.
- E-2NATHANIEL MACON 1758-1837Congressman, 1791-1815. Speaker of U.S. House, 1801-1807. Later U.S. Senator. His home site and grave, 4 miles NW.
- E-100WELDON EDWARDS 1788-1873President, N.C. Secession Convention, 1861-1862; Congressman, 1816-1827; legislator. His grave is three miles north.
- E-37WILLIAM MILLERGovernor, 1814-1817; state legislator and attorney general; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Central America. Lived three miles...
- E-66WILLIS ALSTON, JR. 1769-1837U.S. Congressman, 1799-1815 and 1825-1831, as a Jeffersonian Republican; N.C. Representative and Senator. Grave 4 1/2 mi...
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- E-63'BRIDLE CREEK'The birthplace of two Confederate major generals: Matt W. and Robert Ransom, brothers. House stood 1/4 mile W.
- E-5ANNIE CARTER LEE 1839-1862Daughter of Robert E. Lee & Mary Custis Lee. Was buried 1/2 mile W. General Lee visited her grave in 1870.
- E-60JOHN WHITEN.C. commissioner to buy ships and supplies in England during the Civil War. Gen. R. E. Lee visited in his home, 1870, s...
The New South, 1878-1929
- E-101JOHN A. HYMAN 1840-1891First black to represent N.C. in U.S. Congress, 1875-1877; state senator, 1868-1874. Home is one block west.
- E-102JOHN H. KERR 1873-1958Congressman, 1923-1952; jurist. Sponsored bills to create tobacco price supports and Kerr Lake. He lived 2 blocks east.
- E-28LITTLETON COLLEGEChartered in 1883 as Central Institute and in 1887 as Littleton Female College. Burned 1919. Was located here.