North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #H-118
G. B. Cashwell 1862 1916. âPentecostal Apostle of the South.â Inspired by Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles in 1906, he led revival ¼ mi. S.W.
US 421 (Cumberland Street) at Wilson Avenue in Dunn, NC, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-73
Elizabeth Gold Swindell 1896 1983. Journalist. Publisher of the Wilson Daily Times, 1956-1983. First woman to lead the N.C. Press Assoc. Lived here.
906 Nash Street North in, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-69
Hackney Wagon Company. Manufacturer of farm & delivery wagons; est. 1903. Peak production was 15,000 per year. Factory was 1/4 mi. NE.
East Nash Street at Tarboro Street, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-68
First Abc Store. First Alcoholic Beverage Control store in N.C. opened here, July 2, 1935, ending Prohibition, state law since 1909.
East Nash Street in, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-56
Henry G. Connor 1852 1924. Justice of N.C. Supreme Court; Federal District Judge; state legislator. Grave is 3.5 mi. west.
Nash Street in, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-55
Charles Lee Coon 1868 1927. Educational reformer, historian and author. Secty. of Child Labor Committee, 1904-1916. Home was 1/2 blk. west.
Vance Street at Rountree Street, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-54
P. D. Gold 1833 1920. Primitive Baptist leader & for 50 years editor of Zion's Landmark. Office & home was 1/2 blk. NE.
Vance Street at Maplewood Avenue, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-39
R. D. W. Connor. First Archivist of the U.S., 1934-41. Secretary of the N.C. Historical Commission, historian, author, and teacher. His birthplace stood here.
NC 58/US 264 (East Nash Street) in, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-34
Gen. W. D. Pender. Confederate Major-General. Mortally wounded at Gettysburg. His birthplace stood 1.4 miles north.
NC 42 east of, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-33
Toisnot Church. Baptist. Founded 1756. Was moved 3 1/2 miles west in 1803. Early church site and graveyard are 350 yards south.
NC 42 east of, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-32
Military Hospital. Confederate. Headed by Dr. S. S. Satchwell in building of the Wilson Female Seminary, which was chartered in 1859. Stood 1 1/2 blocks S.E.
Herring Avenue at Gold Street, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-30
Barton College. Founded in 1902 by the Christian Church of N.C. as Atlantic Christian College. Renamed 1990 for a church founder, Barton W. Stone.
Vance Street at Rountree Street, Wilson, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #F-17
Plank Road. The western terminus of the Greenville and Raleigh Plank Road, chartered in 1850 and completed to Wilson by 1853, was nearby.
Pender Street at East Nash Street in, Wilson, NC, United States