Joseph Bryan Park

Before becoming a park, this property was part of the Young family's Westbrook estate in the 1700s and later Rosewood, home of the Mordecai family. It was a gathering place for participants in Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800. During the Civil ...

Col. John Jones

1759-1852

Colonel Jones was a

North Carolina Partisan

Ranger in the Continental

Army. Jones was wounded

at Pacolett River, NC

on July 14, 1780.

Marker can be reached from Louisville Road.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

(1929-1968)

Minister & civil rights leader. Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1964. At Crozer Theological Seminary here, earned his Bachelor of Divinity, 1951. King's three years at Crozer were a key period in shaping his philosophy of nonviolent social change.

Marker can be ...

James W. Dillon House Museum

This house was built in 1890 as the home of James W. Dillon, the father of Dillon County, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Purchased by the Dillon County Historical Society in 1967, it was moved to ...

Joseph M. Morehead

July 9th, 1840. January 1, 1911.

Joseph M. Morehead

Vice-President, acting President,

and second President of the

Guilford Battle Ground Company

Marker is on Guilford Courthouse Auto Tour Road, on the left when traveling west.

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John Wesley Hardin

The west's most feard

gunman, killer of at

least 26 men, was shot

dead in the Acme Saloon

on this site Aug. 19,

1895.

Hardin was shot in the

back of the head by El

Paso constable John

Selman.

At Selman's trial ...

Thomas Wharton, Jr.

In memoriam

Thomas Wharton, Jr.

First President of the Supreme Executive

Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

and Captain General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the same

on March 5, 1777

Died in Office, greatly lamented May 23, 1778.

At the request of the vestry , his ...

Lt Joseph Lawton

1753 -1815

Served as a Lieutenant in Colonel

Bull's Granville County, SC Regiment.

Lt. Lawton was a Justice Of The Peace

in St. Peter's Parish.

He owned land in St. Peter's Parish,

St. Helena Parish, and Granville County, SC

Marker is on ...

Site of James Burke’s Garden

Burke’s Garden is named for James Burke who

surveyed the region with James Patton by

1750. According to tradition, Burke buried

some potato peelings in the region’s fertile

soil during a survey expedition. Sometime

later another group camped at the same site

and discovered the potatoes, ...

John Morton

Site of the birthplace of John Morton (1724-1777) signer of the Declaration of Independence. As delegate to the Continental Congress, his ballot, with that of Franklin and James Wilson, committed Pennsylvania to the cause of independence by one vote.

Marker is ...