Metropolitan Life Tower

Landmarks of New York

This tower, of massive simplicity it Italian Renaissance style, was completed in 1909 from plans by Le Brun & Sons. Its four clock faces are each 26 ½ feet in diameter, the minute hands weighing ½ ...

Plymouth United Methodist Church

Records first mention the appointment of William J. Waller as pastor of the Plymouth Methodist Episcopal Church, February 15, 1826. The first building was constructed in 1832. The church cemetery predates the church with the earliest grave dating back to ...

New Chapel Baptist Church

Established in 1867. Rev. Abraham Mebane entered into a lease agreement with the Lowell Colored School Society, giving New Chapel the right to erect a church on lot No. 41 in the town of Plymouth.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Anne Klein

Fashion Walk of Fame

The work of Anne Klein epitomized the ease and comfort associated with Post War American sportswear. She was instrumental in the development and popularization of coordinated separates for both day and evening. These separates, such as ...

Plymouth State Normal School

Original Site circa 1881

Established by the NC General Assembly as one of two NC schools for training black teachers. Moved to Elizabeth City, NC in 1903 and was parent school to Elizabeth City State University.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Carthagenia Lodge

No. 38

Prince Hall

Affiliated

(Founder of Black Masonry)

Established 1800's

Rebuilt 1975

Marker is at the intersection of Madison Street and Little Court, on the left when traveling south on Madison Street.

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Brick House Landing

circa 1711

Owned by Arthur Rhodes. From this plantation, he sectioned off one hundred acres into what is now the town of Plymouth circa 1790.

Marker is at the intersection of Water Street and Washington Street, on the right when traveling west ...

Cherry Colored School

circa 1920's

Conceived in the 1900's by black educator Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee staff. The Rosenwald program represented a massive effort to improve black rural schooling in the South through public-private partnership. Rosenwald schools were also in Plymouth & ...

Fashion Walk of Fame

Fashion Walk of Fame celebrates excellence in American design by honoring the New York designers who have had a significant and lasting impact on the way the world dresses.

New York has been the undisputed center of American fashion since ...

Cool Spring

Was known as Cool Spring in 1826. Hillie Holmes' Store was the last surviving relic as Cool Spring post office was moved into what became the town of Creswell in 1874.

Marker is on Cherry Road 0.2 miles west of Middle ...