This interesting North Carolina Historical Highway Commission Marker is one my favorite stops along the tour route. It affords me a chance to tell you about a formerly enslaved women who was once owned as a young child by Isabella Carter Wharton Small's relatives on Rosedale Plantation in Washington. Rosedale was owned by Isabella's father Colonel Rufus Wharton. Small was mayor of Washington from 1869-1890. He was a member of Congress...