1.
It looks innocuous doesn't it - a mere road sign? But it leads to the site of the first battle of the Civil War.
2. In keeping with other photographs of culinary oddities, I include this plaque on the side of a building in Durham:
The building is now being converted into lofts.
3. Call me dense, but it took me a few minutes to work out that the geezer in the hose had to be Sir Walter Raleigh.
4. And of course, there are the other little footnotes of history you come across in places like this:
Henry Clay apparently wrote his letter opposing the annexation of Texas under the oak tree in the background. Some think his position cost him the presidency.
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