Tag Archives: N.C. Highway Historical Marker Program

North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Commemorates Loray Mill Strike on April 28

April 17, 2013 – 9:30 am

GASTONIA — In the early 1900s the Loray Mill in Gastonia was the largest textile mill in the world, occupying a five-story building of more than a half-million square feet. The United Textile Workers of America in 1919 formed a local there. The subsequent civil unrest was a landmark in North Carolina labor history. The milestone [...]

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North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Commemorates Tobacco Workers on April 20

April 15, 2013 – 12:32 pm

RALEIGH — A fertile period of labor organizing in the tobacco industry during the 1940s fed into the civil rights movement. A North Carolina Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated to workers involved in the efforts to unionize tobacco warehouses on Saturday, April 20, at First Calvary Baptist Church at 401 Woodland Ave. in Winston-Salem. African American women were [...]

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Fort Fisher Civil War Program Commemorates Fighting And Recalls Lost Ship

January 17, 2013 – 3:41 pm

KURE BEACH — The pivotal role of Fort Fisher in the Civil War is underscored in the movie Lincoln, as the president emphasized that it must be captured. Fort Fisher State Historic Site will demonstrate some of the power of the fort in the 148th anniversary program “Sheppard’s Battery: Confederates Defending the Left Flank” on Saturday, [...]

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Highway Historical Marker to Commemorate Blockade Runner Modern Greece

January 11, 2013 – 4:00 pm

RALEIGH — In conjunction with the observation of the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Fisher on Jan. 19, a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated for the Confederate blockade runner, Modern Greece at 12:30 p.m. at the Fort Fisher Visitor Center. The vital importance of Fort Fisher to the Confederate cause [...]

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Highway Marker to Honor Birth of the Community College System

October 23, 2012 – 5:08 pm

RALEIGH — The industrial expansion in North Carolina after World War II led to a demand for technical and vocational training. Under the administrations of Governors Luther Hodges and Terry Sanford, seven Industrial Education Centers (IEC) were created that became the core of the Community College System. A N.C. Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated to honor the [...]

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Highway Marker Commemorates PCB Landfill Protests

September 10, 2012 – 3:00 pm

WARRENTON – The illegal nighttime dumping of liquid contaminated with PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) in 14 rural North Carolina counties led to the creation of a landfill 30 years ago.  The choice of the site in rural Warren County sparked protests that gave birth to the environmental justice movement in America.  A N.C. Highway Historical Marker will be [...]

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North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Salutes Civil Air Patrol

July 13, 2012 – 11:14 am

RALEIGH – During World War II, the arrival of the North Carolina Civil Air Patrol (CAP) dramatically reduced the German sinking of American vessels off the North Carolina coast.  In recognition of the valuable service the Civil Air Patrol provided, a N.C. Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated on Saturday, July 21, at 10:30 a.m., [...]

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N.C. Highway Historical Marker Honors Provincial Patriot

May 17, 2012 – 3:30 pm

A N.C. Highway Historical Marker for a Revolutionary War general and former Orange County sheriff will be dedicated on Saturday, May 19, at 11:30 a.m. When John Butler became sheriff in 1770, he represented the authority of the Crown at a time when settlers in what was then North Carolina’s backcountry wanted none of it. Even [...]

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N.C. Highway Historical Marker to Honor Jazz Great Thelonious Monk

April 26, 2012 – 8:20 am

RALEIGH — North Carolina native son Thelonious Monk was known as the ultimate hipster and a virtuoso musician. His third copyrighted composition, “Round Midnight” is the most recorded jazz standard of all time.  Along with Dizzy Gillespie, he is credited with being an architect of the bebop jazz style. To recognize Monk’s singular achievements in the [...]

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African American Attorney and Editor Commemorated with N.C. Highway Historical Marker

April 12, 2012 – 10:29 am

RALEIGH – Robert Lee Vann will be commemorated with a N.C. Highway Historical Marker on Friday, April 20, at 11 a.m., at the intersection of Academy and First Streets in Ahoskie. Born on a farm nearby in 1879, Vann served as editor of what became the nation’s largest weekly newspaper for African Americans for 30 years.  [...]

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N.C. Highway Historical Marker Honors Social Services Pioneer

April 10, 2012 – 8:38 am

RALEIGH – On Saturday, April 21, at 2 p.m., a N.C. Highway Historical marker will be dedicated to North Carolina native Ellen Black Winston, who was appointed the first U.S. Commissioner of Public Welfare in the new Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) by President John F. Kennedy in January 1963. The dedication will begin [...]

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Highway Markers Tell North Carolina’s Civil Rights Story

January 12, 2012 – 8:15 am

RALEIGH – The Civil Rights movement for African Americans in the 1960s called for an end to discrimination in voting, education, accommodations, housing, and in other areas. In North Carolina and the nation, blacks turned to public persuasion and to civil disobedience to bring change to their lives and to change the world. North Carolina [...]

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N.C. Highway Historical Marker Honors Civil War Era Veteran and Inventor

January 5, 2012 – 3:11 pm

RALEIGH – When the N.C. Highway Historical marker for Parker David Robbins is dedicated on Monday, Jan. 16, at 11 a.m., it will recognize a man who achieved against the odds.  Born in Bertie County in 1834, he was one of the more than 30,000 free African Americans in North Carolina.  He was literate at [...]

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N.C. Highway Historical Marker To Commemorate Choanoac Village Oct. 21

October 14, 2011 – 2:55 pm

RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources’ Highway Historical Marker Program will dedicate a commemorative marker to the primary village of the Choanoac Indians on Friday, Oct. 21, at 3 p.m., in Hertford County.  The dedication will be at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on N.C. 45 in Harrellsville. Explorers Ralph Lane, Thomas Harriot [...]

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N.C. Highway Historical Marker to Honor Survivor of Custer’s Last Stand

October 12, 2011 – 3:35 pm

RALEIGH – On Monday, Oct. 17, a N.C. Highway Historical marker about Daniel Kanipe will be dedicated at 650 Rutherford Road in Marion at 10 a.m.  Kanipe was one of two survivors of the battalion led by Lt. Col. George Custer at Little Bighorn.  As a result of his experience, he became a primary source [...]

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