Anson
Boggan-Hammond House
Wadesboro, NC
Eighteenth-century house built by Patrick Boggan, Revolutionary soldier & a founder of Wadesboro.
Hugh Hammond Bennett 1881-1960
Wadesboro, NC
"Father of soil conservation.
JOHN J. Mc RAE 1815-1868
Morven, NC
Governor of Mississippi, 1854-1857.
Leonidas L. Polk 1837-1892
Polkton, NC
President of National Farmers' Alliance, 1889- 1892; began Progressive Farmer, 1886; a founder of NCSU and Meredith College.
North Carolina-South Carolina
McFarlan, NC
NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for...
Samuel Spencer
Jurist & Antifederalist leader.
Sherman's March
Wadesboro, NC
Kilpatrick's Cavalry, a part of Sherman's army marching from Savannah to Goldsboro, passed through Wadesboro, March 3-5, 1865.
Thomas Samuel Ashe
Wadesboro, NC
Associate Justice, State Supreme Court, 1878-1887; Member of Congress, 1873-1877; Member of Confederate Congress; legislator.