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Westray Battle Boyce Long

Westray Battle Boyce Long is a North Carolina historical marker in Edgecombe County, dedicated 1998.

C 97 (Raleigh Road) Between Leggett Rd. & Beacon Tower Ln., east of Rocky Mount

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Director of the Women's Army Corps, 1945- 1947. Legion of Merit for N. Africa service, 1943-1944. Grave 175 yds. S.

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Historical maps covering this location

1776 · Map Of North And South Carolina With Their Indian Frontiers. (Northern Section) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · North-Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · (Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1902 · Tarboro, North Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1903 · Tarboro, North Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

(Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States, 1891, covering the location of Westray Battle Boyce Long, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — (Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States, 1891, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

Westray Battle Boyce Long

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