North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program

The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program was established in 1935 as an effort to standardize the practice of marking significant historical sites through-out North Carolina. In Camden County the seven historical silver and black markers represent the:

Battle of South Mills
Dismal Swamp Canal
Dempsey Burgess
Isaac Gregory
Lemuel Sawyer
William Reed
McBride Church

For more information on the program and the Camden markers go to North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program.

Dismal Swamp Canal

The Dismal Swamp Canal completed in 1805 is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway that connects the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina with the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

For more information go to the Dismal Swamp Canal.