Stokes
Bean Shoals Canal
Attempted ca. 1820-25 by Hiram Jennings for Yadkin Navigation Co. Hamilton Fulton was consultant.
Benjamin Forsyth
Germanton, NC
Officer in the War of 1812.
Gabriel Moore
Danbury, NC
Governor of Alabama, 1829-1831.
Greensboro Massacre
Greensboro, NC
Ku Klux Klan members and American Nazis, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.
Moratock Furnace
Danbury, NC
Smelting furnace built by Nathaniel Moody in 1843.
Stoneman's Raid
Danbury, NC
On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. cavalry passed through Danbury, April 9, 1865.