North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-27
Matthew Rowan. Acting governor, 1753-54. Councilor, assemblyman, and Surveyor-General. Merchant in the Irish trade. His home was here.
Main Street , Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-25
John F. Tompkins. Agricultural reformer, a founder of the State Fair, published and edited the "Farmer's Journal," 1852-53, in Bath. This was his home.
Main Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-3
St. Thomas Church. Episcopal. Oldest church building in the state of North Carolina; was constructed in 1734.
Craven Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #BB-1
Colonial Bath.
State Historic Site Visitor Center in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #BB-2
Historic Bath.
State Historic Site Visitors Center in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #BB-3
Palmer Marsh House.
Main Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-48
Alexander Stewart. Anglican minister to N.C., 1753-71. Served parish of St. Thomas & as chaplain to Gov. Arthur Dobbs. Erected first glebe house on record in the colony.
Craven Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-56
James Adams Floating Theatre. Toured coastal towns, 1913-1941. Edna Ferber's 1925 visit to ship, then docked nearby, was basis for her novel Show Boat.
Main Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-62
Port Of Bath. Colony's first town, incorporated March 8, 1705. Home to first port of entry, 1716; exported naval stores.
NC 92 (Carteret St.) west of Brookshire Dr., west of, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-63
John Garzia Ca. 1690 1744. Anglican minister, born in Spain. Served parish, 1733-1744, in spite of difficulties inherent to life in colonial N.C.
Craven Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-21
First Post Road. The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.
Main Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-5
Christopher Gale Ca. 1679 1735. Chief Justice of colony of North Carolina, 1712. Lived nearby at "Kirby Grange," his plantation.
NC 92 southeast of Back Creek bridge in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-6
First Public Library. In North Carolina was set up near this spot about 1700. Books sent from England by Rev. Thos. Bray.
Main Street in, Bath, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #B-47
Edward Teach. Notorious pirate called "Blackbeard." Lived in Bath while Charles Eden was governor. Killed at Ocracoke, 1718.
Main Street in, Bath, NC, United States
Palmer-Marsh House. Colonial home of Colonel Robert Palmer, Surveyor-General of North Carolina 1753-1771 and Collector of Customs for the Port of Bath. Built c. 1744, probably by Michael Coutanche, it is one of the oldest surviving dwelling-houses in the State. Governor William described Palmer's home as "a very excellent house...at Bath which I often resided in with my family, being hospitably entertained." After Colonel Palmer left for England in 1771 his son lived in the house until the mid-1780's. In the 19th Century it was the home of the Jonathan Marsh family, shipowners and merchants, originally from Rhode Island.
Main Street, Bath, NC, United States