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tion, the dates to be strictly colonial, I have to report the following

places of historic interest in North Carolina, relative to the colonial
period which are still unmarked.

(Signed) LuoLta MurcHiIson SprunT,
President North Carolina Society

of Colonial Dames of America.
WILMINGTON, N. C., April 29, 1908.

EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT.

1, Landing place of Amadas and Barlowe, Ballast Point,
Roanoke Island.

2. Memorial on Roanoke Island of the first Christian rites
celebrated on American soil.

3. Memorial at Croatan of the lost colony.

4. Durant’s Neck, at the junction of the Perquimans and
Little Rivers, the first identified permanent settlement.

5. Site of Massachusetts settlement of 1660 on the Cape Fear
River.

6. Crane Island, in the Cape Fear River, scene of the treaty
with the Indian chief Wat Coosa in 1663.

7. Hilton River, named by the explorers from the Barbadoes
in 1663.

8. Rocky Point, named by the explorers from the Barbadoes
in 1663. :

9. Site of Charlestown settlement on the Cape Fear River in

1665.
COLONIAL FORTS.

10, Fort Johnston,’ at Southport, on the Cape Fear River.

11. Fort at Howe’s Point, on the Cape Fear River.

12. Fort Dobbs, near Barbour Junction, in Rowan County.

13. Old Fort, McDowell County, built against the Catawba
Indians.

14, Fort Reading, on the Pamlico River, near Bath.

15. Remains of the fort at Bath.

16. Fort Defiance, in Happy Valley, Caldwell County.

17. Nahucke Fort, near Snow Hill, in Greene County, a relic
of the Tuscarora War.

18. Fort Barnwell, on the Neuse River, in Craven County,
a relic of the Tuscarora War.

19. Scene* of the execution of John Lawson, on the Neuse
River, in Craven County.

1Marked since the report was made,
2A monument to John Lawson has been erected in Goldsboro.

Peace Restored

BATTLE GROUNDS.

20. Sugar Loaf, opposite Orton, on the Cape Fear River.
Indians defeated by “King” Roger Moore.

21. Repulse of the Spanish at Beaufort in 1746.

22. Repulse of the Spanish at Brunswick in 1748.

CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS,

23. Memorial at Hertford of the first sermon preached in the
colony. Preached by William Edmundson, a Quaker, at the
residence of Henry Phillips, where Hertford now stands.

24. Memorial of the Episcopal Church at or near Edenton,
the first church built in the colony.

25. St. Thomas’ Church at Bath.

26. Bethabara Church, in Forsyth County, first Moravian
settlement.

27. New Garden, early Quaker meeting house and school, in
Guilford County.

28. Shiloh Church, begun by the first Baptist congregation in
the colony, organized in Camden County.

29. St. John’s, early Baptist Church, in Bertie County.

30. Quanky Church, near Halifax.

; 31. Site of school in New Bern. First incorporated academy
in the colony.

32. Site of Queen’s Museum, later Liberty Hall, in Char-
Otte.

THE REGULATION,

33. Sandy Creek, Randolph County, place of meeting and
residence of Herman Husband.

34. Site of courthouse in Hillsboro where Regulator uprising
occurred. .
35. Place of execution of the Regulators after the Battle of
amance, in Cameron grounds, at Hillsboro.
36. Phifer’s Hill, Rowan County, where the “Black Boys”
Stopped the relief expedition.

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COLONIAL HOUSES AND LOCALITIES OF NOTE.

37. Eden House, on Salmon Creek, opposite Edenton.
38. Tower Hill, now Snow Hill, Greene County, selected for
location of colonial capital.

39. Site of Teach’s residence at Bath.