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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BAB_a-prosperous-mountain-family_Blowing-Rock-NC.html
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park preserves the country estate of Moses Cone, a prosperous textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. Its centerpiece is Flat Top Manor, a gleaming white 23-room mansion of almost 14,000 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9V_tillers-of-the-land-then-and-now_Sparta-NC.html
For thousands of years Native Americans cultivated the fertile valleys of the Blue Ridge region including North Carolina. Employing techniques such as "slash and burn" to clear small areas of forested land and fertilize the soil, the Che…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8Q_water-powered-500-pound-hammer_Murphy-NC.html
Water powered
500 pound hammer
from Lovingood
Bloomery Forge on
Hangingdog Creek
1840 — 1890
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8P_prison-cell-door_Murphy-NC.html
The austere prison in Peachtree housed up to 100 prisoners tasked with building and maintaining local roads. In 1931, the state combined the Highway Commission and the State Prison Department. "Road camps" were built throughout the state to provid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8M_cherokee-county-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Murphy-NC.html
Dedicated to veterans
who gave their lives
for our country
Their memories
will never die
{Honor Roll of Veterans}
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A9X_coal-glen-mine-disaster_Sanford-NC.html
State's worst mining accident occurred on May 27, 1925, when explosions killed 53 men. Shaft 1½ mi. SW.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29I1_trail-of-tears_Murphy-NC.html
In 1838, the United States government deported more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homeland in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Thousands of Cherokee perished during …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29HZ_unicoi-turnpike-trail_Murphy-NC.html
The path now known as the Unicoi Turnpike Trail has existed for over 1,000 years. The earliest European maps of the area note the trail as a connector between Cherokee Territories and the coastal ports at Charleston and Savannah. In 1756, British …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29HY_trail-of-tears_Murphy-NC.html
In 1838, the United States government deported more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homeland in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Thousands of Cherokee perished during …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29HW_murphy-north-carolina-rail_Murphy-NC.html
Beginning in 1873, the state of North Carolina began construction of a rail line to carry passengers and freight from Asheville westward. The line took many years to construct, cutting across the mountains, through tunnels and along the steep grad…