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Wikipedia Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina, is a historically black public research university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. WSSU is an accredited university offering baccalaureate and graduate programs to a diverse student population. N...
To walk amidst the graves of Friends and others buried in New Garden Cemetery is to stroll through history, from pre-Revolutionary days right up to the present. Among those buried there are nameless British and American soldiers who fell at the Battle of New Garden and later at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Friends from New Garden tended to the wounded from both sides, caring for them in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greensboro, North Carolina. Official Website Greensboro is the county seat of Guilford County. Before 1895, it was Greensborough. History Early History At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Greensboro were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura. Other indigenous cultures had occupied this ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Guilford County, North Carolina. Official Website At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Guilford County were a Siouan-speaking people called the Cheraw. Beginning in the 1740s, settlers arrived in the region in search of fertile and affordable land. These first settlers included American Quakers...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wake County, North Carolina. Official Website Prior to English colonization, present-day Wake County was part of the Tuscarora nation. The county was formed in 1770. During the colonial period of North Carolina, the state capital was New Bern. For several years during and after the Revolutionary War there was no capital, and the Ge...
This subportal is part of the State of North Carolina Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities Asheville Charlotte Durham Fayetteville Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty)
Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private, independent, nonprofit, non-sectarian, coeducational research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, has been located north of downtow...
Wikipedia =East Carolina University is a public, doctoral/research university in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statute and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina, the university is the third-largest in North Carolina.Founded on March 8, 1907 as a teacher training school, East Carolina has grown from 43 acres (17 ha) to almost 1,600 acres (647 ha) t...
Wikipedia =Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, ...
MacPherson Presbyterian Church Cemetery Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA:
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Official Website Mecklenburg County, located in the Piedmont section of the state, was formed in 1762. It was named in commemoration of the marriage of King George III to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was allegedly signed on May 20, 1775; if the ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1754 from Bladen County. It was named for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), captain-general of the British army and victorious commander at the Battle of Culloden. In 1771 parts of Cumberland County, Johnston County, and Orange Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stokes County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1789. It was named for John Stokes, an American Revolutionary War captain severely wounded when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton's cavalry practically destroyed Col. Abraham Buford's Virginia regiment in the Waxhaws region in 1780. After the war, Captain Stoke...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rowan County, North Carolina. Official Website The first Europeans to enter what is now Rowan County were members of the Spanish expedition of Juan Pardo in 1567. They established a fort and a mission in the native village of Guatari, believed to be located near the Yadkin River and inhabited by the Wateree. At the time, the area wa...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, North Carolina. This area was occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples who settled in the river valleys. It was part of the historic Cherokee homelands, a large territory composed of areas of what are now western Virginia, western North and South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northeastern Georgia. The c...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed on December 29, 1792 from Mecklenburg County. Located in the Piedmont, it was named after Stephen Cabarrus of Chowan County, speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. Catawba Indians were the primary inhabitants of the area until beginning about 1750, t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1741 from Bertie County. It was named for Richard Edgcumbe, a Member of Parliament from 1701 to 1742 and a lord of the treasury, who became 1st Baron Edgcumbe in 1742. Edgecombe County was historically home to the Tuscarora Indians. Although most migrated n...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Barnes families, from earliest origins to near modern times. How to Participate Send a request to collaborate on this project and I'll add you as a collaborator. If the profile is a public profile you have edit rights to, then navigate to the profile and under "More Actions" choose "Add to project" or cl...
This project is for those buried in Timber Ridge Cemetery, Level Cross, Randolph County, North Carolina. Find a Grave Roots Web
This project is for those buried in Lafayette Memorial Park, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The cemetery is located on 2301 Ramsey Street and is also known as Lafayette Memorial Cemetery . Official Website Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Selah Christian Church Cemetery, Wayne County, North Carolina. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Rockfish Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Wallace, Duplin County, North Carolina. Find a Grave Mailing Address Rockfish Presbyterian Church 6270 South NC Highway 41 Wallace, NC 28466 910-285-3147
Coastal Carolina State Veterans Cemetery is located in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Duplin County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1750 from New Hanover County. It was named for Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin (later 9th Earl of Kinnoull), as he was known when he served on the Board of Trade and Plantations in England in the 1740s. In 1784 the western part of Duplin County became Sampson Cou...
Asheville is a city in, and the county seat of, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, it is the largest city in Western North Carolina. Official Website Before the Europeans arrived in what is now North Carolina , the land around Asheville was a part of the Cherokee nation. After the American Revolution , Colonel Samuel Davidson...