Did your family live in North Carolina? Load your tree to see which of these places stand near where they lived. Try it with your own tree
North Carolina has marked its history beside its highways since 1935. Every marker here has its own page with the program's current text, on maps from the era it describes. A few recent signs have an approximate location, and their pages say so.
1,620 marker pages, on more than 83,000 historical map sheets. North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, credited on every page.
Every dot is a live page. Tap or click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers, so tap a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 1,620 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in North Carolina, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
Guilford Courthouse · near where a family lived in Guilford County in the 1780s · Armies of Greene and Cornwallis engaged in pivotal battle here on March 15, 1781
When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a North Carolina family sees North Carolina’s).
Browsing all 1,620 markers by county.
Scan: the Wright Brothers marker page