DeCou House Monument

DeCou's Stone House

1812 -1950

This house of Captain John DeCou (the name was variously spelled by his relatives and descendants and latterly as DeCew) was the Headquarters of the British outpost under Lieut. James Fitzgibbon to which came Laura Secord through ...

Elizabeth City Confederate Monument

Our Heroes

1861 1865

To our

Confederate Dead.

Erected by

The D.H. Hill Chapter

United Daughters

of the Confederacy

Elizabeth City

North Carolina,

May 10th, 1911.

Marker is on East Main Street east of North Elliot Street, on the left when traveling east.

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Battlefield House

[Text on First Historic Marker]:

Battlefield House

and

Fifteen and one-half acres of

Parkland

Property of

The women's Wentworth Historical Society

1899-1962

Given by this society to the

Niagara Parks Commission

as a National Historic Site

January 19, 1962

[Text on Second Historic Marker]:

Battlefield Park

Battlefield House (circa 1796)

Battlefield Monument (1913)

Designated under the ...

Old Carter Peanut Warehouse

Built in 1903, and intended as an hotel, the building housed retail services on the ground floor and the twenty-bed wise sanitarium on the top floor. The Wise Brothers used this location until the 1920's when they moved to the ...

The Battlefield of Stoney Creek

The Battlefield of Stoney Creek

6th June 1813

In memory of 20 good and true King's Men who,

in fighting in defence of their country, died

and were buried on this knoll.

This revised inscription and stone re-dedicated

June 6th 1956

By

Her Majesty's Army & Navy Veteran's ...

Plains Depot

The train depot served as the Presidential Campaign Headquarters for Jimmy Carter in 1976. The depot became nationally recognized and served as the backdrop for many political speeches. In January 1977, an 18-car "Peanut Special" train departed from the railroad ...

Historical Promised Land Community

Founded in 1870

Promised Land Community

Organized

in the Year 1977

Now Known as the

Promised Land Association

Marker is on McCormick Highway (State Highway 10) near New Zion Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Surry Muster Field

Patriot militia, led by Major Joseph Winston, gathered in this vicinity, Sept. 1780, marched to victory at Kings Mtn.

Marker is on Elkin Highway (North Carolina Route 268), on the right when traveling east.

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Wm. Pierce Bennett Kinard

In Loving Memory of

Wm. Pierce Bennett Kinard

1855 --- 1935

Founder of Epworth Camp Meeting

who deeded these grounds, eight

acres of land, to the Board of

Trustees on Jan. 4, 1907 to be

known as

Epworth Camp Meeting

Grounds

Marker is at the intersection of Epworth Camp Grounds ...

Jimmy Carter's Boyhood Farm

From Here to Plains

Just down this path is the shady, swept-sand yard where the 39th President of the United States played as a boy, during the years of the Great Depression. This plain white farmhouse, these tangled woods, and these ...