FALL OF RALEIGH

Fall of Raleigh is a North Carolina historical marker in Wake County, dedicated 1940.

Wake County · dedicated 1940 · Blount Street at City Farm Road in Raleigh

Commissioners of North Carolina's capital met officers of Sherman's army near this spot, on April 13,1865, and surrendered the city.

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