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Robert F. Williams. Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe.
514 Miller St. 34°59′20″N 80°32′46″W / 34.988889°N 80.546111°W / 34.988889; -80.546111 (Piedmont Buggy Factory) Monroe. 6. Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting Ground. Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting Ground. April 3, 1973. (#73001370) NE of Waxhaw on SR 1327.
Berniece Inez Gladys Baker was born on July 30, 1919 in Venice, California. Her parents, Gladys Pearl Monroe and Jasper Newton "Jap" Baker, were married in 1917, 10 days before Monroe's 15th birthday. Following their divorce in 1921, Jasper kidnapped Miracle and her brother, Robert Jasper “Kermit” Baker, and raised them in his native state ...
January 6, 1988. The Monroe Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses 376 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Monroe. The district developed between about 1874 and 1940 and includes ...
Dare County, North Carolina, US. The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈroʊənoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared. It has come to be known as the Lost ...
In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).
February 8, 2024. Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives. Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was one of the last mainline passenger ...
Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587; date of death unknown) was the first English child born in an American English colony. [2] What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. The fact of her birth is known because John White, Virginia's grandfather and the governor of the colony, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh ...