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Alexander Lillington
Rocky Point, NC
Revolutionary leader, Whig colonel in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, 1776.
Edward Moseley
Rocky Point, NC
Published landmark map, 1733.
General John Ashe
Rocky Point, NC
Stamp Act patriot; Speaker of the House.
GEORGE BURRINGTON ca. 1682-1759
St. Helena, NC
Colonial governor, 1724-1725, 1731-1734; opened lower Cape Fear region to settlement.
Hinton James
First student to enter the University of North Carolina, 1795.
James Moore
Rocky Point, NC
Commander of Whigs in Moore's Creek campaign, 1776, brigadier general North Carolina troops at Charleston.
Maurice Moore
Rocky Point, NC
Leader in Tuscarora and S.C. Indian Wars.
Moore's Creek Bridge
First battle of the Revolution in North Carolina, Feb. 27, 1776.
Penderlea Homesteads
Established in 1934 as model farm community.
Prisoner Exchange
Thousands of Civil War soldiers, including many held in the Confederate prison at Salisbury, were exchanged here, Feb. 26-March 4,...
S. S. Satchwell
Burgaw, NC
A founder of State Medical Society, 1849, head of Confederate Hospital at Wilson, 1st president State Board of Health, 1879.
Samuel Swann
Speaker of assembly nearly 20 years, leader popular party, compiler first printed revisal of N.C. laws (1752).
Stag Park
St. Helena, NC
Named by Barbadian explorers, 1663.
Timothy Bloodworth
U.S. Senator, 1795-1801; member, U.S. House, in First Congress, 1790-91.
Topsail Battery
Hampstead, NC
Confederate breastworks were constructed in this vicinity in 1862 to pro- tect Wilmington from an attack from the north and for...
Welsh Tract
About 1730 a group of Welsh from the colony of Pennsylvania settled in this area, between the Northeast and Cape Fear rivers.
William S. Ashe
Railroad president, congressman, state senator.