Randolph Architecture
The first covered bridge completed in Randolph County in 1846.
What is the Cedar Falls Bridge?
Braxton Craven.
Where is the Trinity Cemetery?
Governor 1865-1868. State treasurer 1862-1865. Home stood one block south.
Who is Jonathan Worth?
Confederate troops under this general mustered out near Archdale, May 1-2, 1865 after surrender near Durham.
Who is General Joseph E. Johnston?
This immigrant Quaker was the first Register of Deeds for Randolph County in 1779.
Who is William Millikan?
Randolph County Courthouse #7 was one of eight similar or identical courthouses in North Carolina completed in this year.
What is 1909?
Naomi Wise.
Where is Providence Friends Meeting Cemetery?
Present day Fayetteville Street in Asheboro was the route of this Fayetteville to Salem toll road.
What is the Plank Road?
This vote in Randolph County in February, 1861 was 2,446 against, and 45 for.
What is Secession from the Union?
This is the oldest Friends Meeting in Randolph County, founded in 1785.
What is Back Creek Friends Meeting?
This 19th Century quail, duck, and pheasant hunting facility was begun in Trinity by Jay Gould in 1896.
What is Fairview Park?
John Banner Randleman.
Where is St. Paul's Methodist Cemetery, Randleman.
Chartered 1822; opened 1836. Jonathan Worth, it's president. Supplied clothing for Confederate war effort.
What is the Cedar Falls Mill?
This southern state lost more men (more than 40,000) than any other.
What is North Carolina?
This prolific Quaker author from the Holly Spring community served as Executive Secretary of North Carolina Yearly Meeting from 1952-1968.
Who is Seth B. Hinshaw?
The stately structure now home to Price Realty was built in the 1880's by this Archdale manufacturer.
Who is Moses Hammond?
Jonathan Worth.
Where is Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC?
This route from Petersburg, Virginia to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina passed near Randleman.
What is the Colonial Trading Path?
In the sequence of secession of the eleven Confederate States North Carolina is listed here.
What is tenth?
Quakers, and others, from Guilford, Randolph, and neighboring counties were active in this anti-slavery organization.
What is the Manumission Society?
Local tradition believes this structure in New Market township to have been the store and post office of Robert Gray.
What is the Gladesboro Store?
Colonel David Fanning.
Where is Holy Trinity Church, Digby, Nova Scotia?
Stood here Union Institute, 1839, Normal College, 1851 . . . Moved to Durham, 1892 . . .
Family history and oral traditions indicate that young men avoided conscription into the Confederate Army by hiding at the menacingly named Randolph mountain.
What is Purgatory Mountain?
This Quaker from Indiana was sent by the Baltimore Association to help reconstruct the war ravaged area of the Piedmont after the Civil War.
Who is Allen Jay?