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 ...

Way of the Horse

A Race of Mounted Warriors

Horses were introduced by the Europeans in the 18th century. They were seen by the Indians as a creature similar to the dog, subservient to man. The Plains people therefore called the animals "big dogs." However, ...

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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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Wm. Pierce Bennett Kinard

In Loving Memory of

Wm. Pierce Bennett Kinard

1855 --- 1935

Founder of Epworth Camp Meeting

who deeded these grounds, eight

acres of land, to the Board of

Trustees on Jan. 4, 1907 to be

known as

Epworth Camp Meeting

Grounds

Marker is at the intersection of Epworth Camp Grounds ...

Jimmy Carter's Boyhood Farm

From Here to Plains

Just down this path is the shady, swept-sand yard where the 39th President of the United States played as a boy, during the years of the Great Depression. This plain white farmhouse, these tangled woods, and these ...

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 ...