Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Biochemists in the 1920s conducted studies leading to improved understanding of the roles of minerals in animal and human diets. University of Wisconsin biochemists E.B. Hart, C.A. Elvehjem, and Harry Steenbock discovered that copper, in ...

The Davenport Home

This house was built ca 1778.

Daniel (1755-1807) and Sarah Nichols (1756-?) were the first Davenports to occupy this home. They were wed in 1786, and from this union came: Elizabeth Warrington, Eunice Arnold, Priscilla Long, Nancy Bateman and Asenath Davenport.

The ...

Davenport Homestead

circa 1770

Colonial home of Daniel Davenport, farmer, surveyor, and first Senator from Washingtyon County. He served in the Revolutionary War. Homestead 3 miles ->

Marker is at the intersection of Mt Tabor Road and Arnold Hill Road, on the right when ...

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 & ...

Cherry

Named by surveyor Gisbourne J. Cherry. Post Office established 1898. 8 stores, 2 cotton mills, 1 gristmill, 1 blacksmith shop, 2 sawmills, 1 jail, 2 churches, 2 schools; 1 colored, 1 white, Charitable Brotherhood Lodge Hall, 1 barber shop.

Marker is ...

Concord Primitive Baptist Church

Original deed 14, December 1808 Jacob Hassell to James Ambrose and Andrew Oliver, commissioners. Constituted 1810.

Marker is at the intersection of Cherry Road and Mt Tabor Road (North Carolina Route 1146), on the right when traveling west on Cherry Road. ...

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 ...

Camden County Courthouse

Built in 1847, the historic Camden County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. "A jewel among the state's Greek Revival buildings," the two-story building with hip roof and five-bay main facade replaced a courthouse ...

Ruth Redmond

1903 - 1999

Ruth Redmond was a teacher at nearby Stamford Collegiate from 1926 to 1967.

In 1954, Miss Redmond began purchasing properties that were adjacent to her home here on the north side of Lundy's Lane. This valuable land was part ...

Grimsby 1812 Bicentennial Gazebo

We dedicate this gazebo to the Grimsby 1812 Bicentennial Peace Garden and to the residents of Grimsby, In commemoration of 200 years of peace between Canada and the United States.

The design of the gazebo was inspired by elements of Fort ...