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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/HM1Z5U_watauga-hotel-cottage_Blowing-Rock-NC.html
Originally constructed as one of several cottages located on the Watauga Hotel property, the building contained two small rental units. This structure is the last remaining example of the group of cottages. Acquired in 1939 by the town, the hotel …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WFW_camp-mast-historical_Sugar-Grove-NC.html
In July 1863, Gov. Zebulon B. Vance created the Home Guard to protect communities and capture deserters, Unionists, and bushwhackers. The Guard was made up of men not liable for conscription because of age, health, and other reasons. Capt. Harvey …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WFV_cove-creek-high-school-historical_Sugar-Grove-NC.html
This Property Was
Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
June 18, 1998
By The United States
Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WFU_military-veterans-of-western-watauga-county-a-war-memorial_Sugar-Grove-NC.html
Dedicated
to the
Military Veterans
of Western Watauga County
This Memorial Is Proudly Placed At
The Historic Cove Creek High School By
The Boone Sunrise Rotary Club
May 28, 2005
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V20_valle-crucis-episcopal-mission-historical_Banner-Elk-NC.html
Established in 1842 by Bishop Levi S. Ives. Reorganized in 1895 by Bishop J. B. Cheshire.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V1F_carriage-roads-historical_Blowing-Rock-NC.html
Flat Top Manor, once the home of textile magnate Moses H. Cone and his family, presides over the former Cone Estate—3,600 acres of forests, meadows and rolling farmlands.
Moses Cone, whose hobbies included road-building and cultivating ap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SQ4_ginseng-trade_Boone-NC.html
Native root valued in China for medicinal uses; long collected by locals. Wilcox Drug (est. 1900), among its exporters, operated 175 yds. SE.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PEG_stonemans-raid_Blowing-Rock-NC.html
On a raid across western N.C. Gen. A. C. Gillem led part of Stoneman's U.S. cavalry through this vicinity, March 28, 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTGG_daniel-boone-trail-marker_Blowing-Rock-NC.html
Donated to the Town of Blowing Rock in loving memory of two brothers and Blowing Rock's sons, Paul and Glenn Coffey by the Coffey Family This monument was erected two blocks north of this site on September 1, 1927. Mr. Thomas H. Coffey was chairm…