North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-64
Washington's Southern Tour. President Washington was a visitor in the town of Salisbury, May 30-31, 1791.
US 29/70 (Main Street) at Council Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #K-40
Thomas Samuel Ashe. Associate Justice, State Supreme Court, 1878-1887; Member of Congress, 1873-1877; Member of Confederate Congress; legislator. Home is one mile west.
US 52/74 (Salisbury Street) in Wadesboro, NC, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-15
John Steele. Congressman, 1789-93, Comptroller of the United States Treasury, Federalist party leader. Home stands 2 blocks east.
US 29/70 (Main Street) at Steele Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-14
'Christian Reid' 1846 1920. Pen name of Frances Fisher Tiernan, author of Land of the Sky and other novels. Her grave is 200 yards N.W.
US 29/70/NC 150 (South Main Street) alongside Chestnut Hill Cemetery in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-12
John W. Ellis. Governor, 1859-61. A leader of the secession movement in N.C. Died July, 1861, aged 40. Home stands 1 1/2 blocks south.
US 70/601 (West Innes Street) at Ellis Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-2
Confederate Prison. Enclosure, 16 acres. Once held 10,000 men. Destroyed by Federals, 1865. Site one block south.
East Innes Street at Long Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-20
Sam'l E. Mc Corkle. Presbyterian preacher and educator. The site of his famous academy, Zion Parnassus (about 1794 to 1798) is 3/4 of a mile north.
NC 150 west of, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-44
St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Parish established in 1753. Present building constructed in 1828, stands one block west.
US 29/70 (Main Street) at Council Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-47
Andrew Jackson. Studied law under Spruce Macay, 1784-85, at an office which stood 1 bl. W. Admitted to the bar in Rowan County, Nov. 6, 1787.
US 29/70 (Main Street) at W Fisher Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-30
Trading Path. Colonial trading route dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.
US 29/70 (N Main Street) at E Seventeenth Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-29
Stoneman's Raid. Stoneman's U.S. cavalry occupied the town of Salisbury, Apr. 12, 1865, and destroyed the Confederate warehouses, supplies, and prison.
US 29/70 (Main Street) at Liberty Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-27
Lee S. Overman. United States Senator, 1903-30, a leading supporter of Wilson's war policies, Speaker of House of Representatives. His home is here.
US 70/601 (West Innes Street) at Ellis Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-70
Setzer School. Restored one-room log school of 1840's. Now located at the Knox Junior High School, 1/4 mile east.
US 70/601 (West Innes Street) at Mahaley Avenue, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-63
Maxwell Chambers House. A good example of the larger homes built about 1820. Now used by the Rowan Museum. Located 1/2 block south.
US 70/601 (West Innes Street) at N Jackson Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-61
Francis Locke 1722 1796. Colonel of Whig force which routed Tories at Battle of Ramsour's Mill, June 20, 1780. Home stood nearby.
NC 150 at SR 1728 (Briggs Road), Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-59
Catawba College. Coeducational, liberal arts. Affiliated with Evangelical & Reformed Church. Opened at Newton, 1851. Moved here, 1925, and enlarged.
West Innes Street, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-71
Old English Cemetery. Cornwallis' men buried here in 1781. Granted to city in 1770 by British government. Grave of Gov. John W. Ellis is here.
North Church Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-85
Livingstone College. Founded as Zion Wesley Institute, 1879. Became College in 1885. Rev. J. C. Price president 1882-93. Named for British missionary. 5 blocks west.
US 29/70 (Main Street) at Monroe Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-89
Joseph C. Price 1854 1893. Minister, teacher, and founder of Livingstone College. Home stands here. Grave 700 ft. E.
West Monroe Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-104
J. E. K. Aggrey (1875 1927) Rose D. Aggrey (1882 1961). Born in West Africa's Gold Coast (now Ghana), James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey enrolled at Livingstone College in 1898 & later joined the faculty. In 1920 he returned to Africa where he influenced the course of post-colonialism. In 1905 Aggrey married Rose Douglass, teacher long active across the state in groups advocating education, social welfare, & racial harmony. This was their home.
West Monroe Street in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-106
Harry Cowan 1810 1904. Baptist minister vital to growth of church in N.C. Founder of Mount Zion Church (1867), which is one block W.
US 29/70 (North Main Street) in, Salisbury, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #L-28
Stoneman's Raid. On their raid through western N. C., Gen. George Stoneman's U.S. cavalry fought a skirmish with Confederate troops near here, April 12, 1865.
West Innes Street at Grants Creek in, Salisbury, NC, United States