Things To Do in Linwood, North Carolina

Inscription. Southern troops turned, back Stonemans U. S. Cavalry, raiding through, western North Carolina, at the Yadkin River, Bridge, April 12, 1865, , Erected 1940 by Department of Conservation and Development. (Marker Number ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In 1750, Daniel Boone, age 16, came with his father from Pennsylvania and settled near Boones Ford on Yadkin River, then in Rowan, now Davidson County. Near this spot, in 1781, the American Army under Gen. Nathanael Greene ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Physician. Advocate of, scientific agriculture. His plantation “Linwood”, was 6 miles southwest. Built home here, 1834. , Erected 1995 by Division of Archives and History. (Marker Number K 56: ), , Location. ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Sacrificed his life for the cause, of regulators. Was executed by, officials of the Crown, June 19, 1771. Home was 8 miles south. , Erected 1981 by National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Capt. Benj. Merrill ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Erected by, The Robert E. Lee Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, No. 324, Sept. 14, 1905. [ Back of Monument: ], Sleep sweetly in your humble graves. Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause. For lo, a marble column craves, ... More on HMDB

For hundreds of years the Trading Path brought Native Americans to this area to hunt, and Europeans soon followed. After stopping first in the Northeast, settlers originally from England , Scotland... More on Co.davidson.nc.us

Inscription. President Jefferson Davis and his entourage paused here in Lexington on April 16-17, 1865, as the Confederate government fled south after the April 3 evacuation of Richmond, Virginia. ... More on HMDB

'Southern Railway's Spencer Shops' were a major steam locomotive repair facility between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. in Spencer, North Carolina. The service facility was once Southern Railway's largest steam locomotive repair center. ... More on Wikipedia

Inscription. The Homestead was the home of Dr. William R. Holt, one of antebellum North Carolinas most versatile and talented men, with interests in medicine, agriculture, education, religion, transportation, and manufacturing. In ... More on HMDB