Elkin Manufacturing Company

Welcoming the Raiders

(Preface):

On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North Carolina ...

Eagles

Lords of the Air

To the Plains Indians, the eagle was a lord of the air, symbolizing both ferocity and purity. It flies high in the atmosphere where the air is the clearest and where, in the belief of many Indians, ...

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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Ceremonial Pipes

The Ceremonial Pipe

The pipe was central to tribal social and ceremonial life. A shared pipe sealed a friendship, a trade agreement, a treaty.

The solemn act of smoking a pipe was usually part of a group ritual or observance, such as ...

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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Benjamin Cleveland

Colonel in Revolution, Whig leader in battle of Kings Mountain, state legislator. Home was on "The Round About," one mile southwest.

Marker is at the intersection of Elkin Highway (North Carolina Route 268) and Chatham Street, on the left when traveling ...

Always a Reckoning

I had a pony then that lacked a way to work and pay her way, except that every year or two Lady had a colt we sold, but still for less than what was due to buy the fodder, hay ...

Jimmy Carter Slept Here

Our lives then were centered almost completely around our own family and our own home...

Jimmy Carter, 1975, Why Not the Best?

This is the homeplace- "hot in the summer and cold in the winter"- of a Georgia farmboy who would someday ...

The Earl and Lillian Carter Home

James Earl Carter, Sr. and his family moved into this middle-class rural dwelling as its second owners in 1928, six years after the home had been built. Heating was accomplished by fireplaces and wood stoves.

Initially, there was no running water ...

The Carter Family Garden

Earl Carter always had a garden to add variety to the family's meals. A community sweet potato garden was also planted and shared among the residents who lived nearby. This garden was strictly for the Carter family's use although the ...