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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM133O_deep-river-friends-meeting_High-Point-NC.html
Was begun in 1753 and organized as a Monthly Meeting, 1778. Present building erected 1875.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10RJ_oak-ridge-public-school_Oak-Ridge-NC.html
The Oak Ridge Public School had a capacity for 123 students and served grades 1-8. The structure contained six classrooms and had two indoor flush toilets, but no cafeteria or gymnasium. The center of the original building included a stage and aud…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10RA_jesse-benbow-house_Oak-Ridge-NC.html
Jesse Benbow was born in 1815 to Charles and Mary (Saunders) Benbow. In 1838 Jesse married Ann Clark and they had seven children. Jesse designed the house using oak trees from the property for the joists and foundation, and clay from the Haw Ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10R8_charles-benbow-house_Oak-Ridge-NC.html
Charles Benbow was born on December 6, 1787 to Thomas and Hannah Benbow. Charles married Mary Sanders on December 11, 1811, and they had seven children. This Quaker style house was conservative in plan, though Charles' application to detail was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10R7_oakhurst_Oak-Ridge-NC.html
Oakhurst was built for Martin Hicks Holt, Co-Principal of Oak Ridge Institute, and his wife Mary. The finest Queen Anne style house surviving in all of Guilford County, it was designed by the prominent and prolific southern architect Frank P. Milb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10M4_oak-ridge-institute_Oak-Ridge-NC.html
First building erected 1851-52. Opened during academic year 1852-53. Since 1929 Oak Ridge Military Institute.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10LE_christian-isley-house_Greensboro-NC.html
Originally located in eastern Guilford County this one-and-a-half story structure was the home of Christian and Mary Isley. Like other German families, the Isleys migrated to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. In 1788 they purchased approximately 3…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10LD_francis-mcnairy-house_Greensboro-NC.html
Originally located in northwest Guilford County, this two-story log house was the home of Francis and Mary Boyd McNairy. Like other Scots-Irish families, the McNairys migrated to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. In 1762, they purchased 640 acres …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10LC_richardson-civic-center_Greensboro-NC.html
On this site, members of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro built their first house of worship in 1832, and on the adjacent land citizens of Greensboro erected the first graded public school in North Carolina in 1875. These grounds and th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10KX_o-henrys-family_Greensboro-NC.html
William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910, better known by his pen name O Henry, gained fame as a gifted short story writer. O Henry's parents, Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter, his grandparents, Sidney and Ruth Worth Porter, …
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