North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #J-85

Piedmont Railroad. Railroad line between Greensboro and Danville. Constructed, 1862-1864, for the Confederacy. Its terminus was nearby.

S Church St & E Washington St, Greensboro, NC, United States

North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #J-112

Lunsford Richardson 1854 1919. A pharmacist and entrepreneur, he created Vicks VapoRub in 1894 while operating a drugstore 150 yards north.

E Washington St & S Elm St, Greensboro, NC, United States

North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #J-81

Lindsay Street School. The first permanent public graded school in N.C. opened in 1875 in a building which stood on this site.

Lindsay Street at Church Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #J-3

Guilford Courthouse. Armies of Greene and Cornwallis engaged in pivotal battle here on March 15, 1781. Site now U.S. military park.

US 220 (Battleground Avenue) at New Garden Road in Greensboro, NC, Greensboro, NC, United States

North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #J-27

Joseph G. Cannon. Member of Congress for 46 years from Illinois, Speaker of the House, 1903-11. His birthplace stood 1 1/2 miles southwest.

US 220 (Battleground Avenue) at New Garden Road, Greensboro, NC, United States

David Caldwell 1725-1824 Educator, Minister &7 Physician. Operated famous "Caldwell Log College" near here from 1767 till 1824. Home site of Dr. David and Rachel Caldwell 100 yards West, donated by Mr. & Mrs. Edward Benjamin to North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities.

, Greensboro, NC, United States

Original Methodist Church 1831. Here, in 1830-31, 64 Methodists led by Peter Doub built the first church in Greensboro. Moving to a second church on West Market Street in 1851, the congregation relocated a third and final time to the third block in 1893. West Market Street's Victorian sanctuary, completed in 1898, was listed on the National Register in 1985.

, Greensboro, NC, United States