Watauga County
8 places on the trail: 8 highway markers.
People of Watauga County in Carolina Quotes
The young state, 1790-1860
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- N-12STONEMAN'S RAIDOn a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. cavalry fought a skirmish with the home guard at Boone, Ma...
- N-33STONEMAN'S RAIDOn raid through western North Carolina Federal forces under Gen. George Stoneman erected a palisaded fort here in April ...
- N-10STONEMAN'S RAIDOn a raid across western N.C. Gen. A. C. Gillem led part of Stoneman's U.S. cavalry through this vicinity, March 28, 186...
The New South, 1878-1929
- N-23APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYEst. 1899 as Watauga Academy by B.B. and D.D. Dougherty. A campus of The University of North Carolina since 1972.
- N-25ELLIOTT DAINGERFIELD 1859-1932Artist, teacher, author. His paintings hang in the National Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, and other galleries. His home ...
- N-51GINSENG TRADENative root valued in China for medicinal uses; long collected by locals. Wilcox Drug (est. 1900), among its exporters, ...
- N-48STANLEY HARRIS 1882-1976Boy Scouts of America leader. Founded Scouts’ Interracial Service in 1926. Lived 100 yds. N.