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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMX_paper-mill_Hillsborough-NC.html
The first paper millin North Carolina, builtto relieve the papershortage during theRevolution, was erectedin this vicinity, 1777.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMU_edmund-fanning_Hillsborough-NC.html
Born in New York, Yalegraduate, judge. Hishome, nearby, destroyedby Regulators, 1770.Later Loyalist, BritishGeneral, Governor.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMR_occaneechi_Hillsborough-NC.html
Village of OccaneechiIndians on the GreatTrading Path. Inhabitedca. 1680 - 1710. Visitedin 1701 by the explorerJohn Lawson. ½ mi. E.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMO_north-carolina-society-of-the-cincinnati_Hillsborough-NC.html
Formed Oct. 23, 1783, inHillsborough, by officersof the Continental Line.First President was Gen-eral Jethro Sumner.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMJ_thomas-burke_Hillsborough-NC.html
Governor of N. C., wascaptured in Hillsboroby David Fanning andhis Tories, Sept. 12,1781, and taken toCharleston, S.C.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMH_regulators-hanged_Hillsborough-NC.html
After the Regulatorswere defeated at Ala-mance, May 16, 1771,six of their numberwere hanged, ? mileeast, June 19, 1771.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKKI_harts-mill_Hillsborough-NC.html
Grist mill. Site of key Regulator meeting, 1766, and skirmish in 1781 that boosted the Patriot cause. Stood 1/5 mile N.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKIS_harriet-m-berry_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
Champion of good roads. Her intensive lobbying led to 1921 law creating modern state highway system. Born 8 mi. N.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM92L_the-last-encampment_Hillsborough-NC.html
(Preface, upper left): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCZ_william-hooper_Hillsborough-NC.html
One of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. His home is 150 yds. W. Was buried a few yds. W.