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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pasquotank River

The Pasquotank River was noted in 35 runaway slave ads between 1791 to 1840, indicating that slaves (“freedom seekers”) escaped on board boats (“vessels”) traveling north to free territory or south to the West Indies, confirming that Underground Railroad operations ...

Coker Spring

The source of water for early settlers.

A stagecoach stop on route from Abbeville to

Charleston, S.C. Deeded to City of Aiken 1844

by Wm. Peronneau Finley. Restored by many

friends in 1972.

(Upper Medallion)

The National Register

of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of Archives ...

Tribes

The Plains Indians were inseparable from the land they roamed. The Plains were home to the buffalo, which the tribes followed during all but the winter months. Under the star-filled sky of the prairie, they showed reverence to the Great ...

Baby Row

Miss Julia Coleman, the Plains High School superintendent, inaugurated Baby Row in the late 1930's. A special section of the school's Friendship Garden, Baby Row horned the "Little citizens of Plains."

Mothers with their new babies in arms came to ...

Friendship Garden

In May 1936, the Tri-County news of Americus, Georgia, reported, "Miss Julia Coleman {superintendent of the Plains High School} has directed a program for the beautification of the {school} campus this spring, and many shrubs and flowers have been planted. ...

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 ...

Early Days

The town of Plains was founded in 1885. Milton Leander Hudson donated land for the town, including land for a depot for the new railroad line. The train depot is the oldest building in Plains, built 1888.

Originally Creek Indians inhabited ...

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 ...

Historic Events in Pasquotank

One of the original precincts of Ancient Albemarle.

First Albemarle Assembly met at Halls Creek 1665.

George Fox established Quaker Church 1672.

Culpepper’s Rebellion began at Enfield 1677.

Charles Griffin opens first school in N.C., 1795.

Nixonton chartered 1758.

Two regiments raised for the Revolutionary War ...