National Civil War Trails Program

Tarboro and Edgecombe County have recently been included in the National Civil War Trails program, through the NC Division of Tourism and the National Civil War Trails system. These signs document the role ofTarboro and Edgecombe County during the Civil War and focus on Union General Edward Potter's raid and occupation of Tarboro on July 20, 1863. The signs also discuss the only significant battle in this portion of North Carolina which occurred later that day just east of Tarboro, known as the Battle of Daniel's Schoolhouse. The sign at Old Town Cemetery/Calvary Church honors the Union soldiers killed at Daniel's Schoolhouse, the many local Confederate veterans buried in Tarboro, and those who died here at the two Confederate hospitals on the Tarboro Town Common. These men include North Carolina's Governor during the first year of the Civil War, Gov. Henry Toole Clark, General William Dorsey Pender, several Colonels and other officers and numerous enlisted men.

Signs have just been installed in Tarboro at the west entrance to the Blount-Bridgers House (Tour Headquarters), on the Town Common adjacent to Wilson Street and next to Old Town Cemetery/Calvary Church on E. St. James Street (behind Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church.) In Princeville there is a sign commorating its founding by freed slaves at the Old Town Hall/proposed African-American History Museum (which has just had its bids awarded for total restoration.)

National Civil War Trails Program