Engaging North Carolina
Wilson County
Quick Facts
Students: 212Applicants: 157
Alumni: 1005
Park Scholars: 1
Goodnight Scholars: 2
Caldwell Fellows: 1
NC State is Here
North Carolina’s Longest Serving Governor
Jim Hunt
Casualties of War
Two of the 35 men honored in NC State’s iconic Memorial Tower on NC State’s main campus were from Wilson.
Joshua Barnes Farmer Jr. served as a corporal in Company M in the U.S. Army 26th Infantry. He was killed in action in France on July 18, 1918.
John Quincey “Pap” Jackson was a chemist for the Sanitary Corps, who died of pneumonia at Camp Upton, New York. He attended both NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill. [The Names in the Belltower.]
An 18-wheeler cruises past a field of soy beans off Old US 264 in Wilson County at sunset.
Dust kicks up from the fields as a farmer harvests soy beans in Wilson County near Saratoga.
As the sun sets, a soy bean field off Old US 264 in Wilson County glows gold on a warm Fall day.
As the sun sets, a soy bean field off Old US 264 in Wilson County glows gold on a warm Fall day.
As the sun sets, a soy bean field off Old US 264 in Wilson County glows gold on a warm Fall day.
As the sun sets, a soy bean field off Old US 264 in Wilson County glows gold on a warm Fall day.
Dust kicks up from the fields as a farmer harvests soy beans in Wilson County near Saratoga.
A farmer harvests a soy bean field off Old US 264 in Wilson County near Saratoga.
As the sun sets on a warm Fall day, a farmer harvests a soy bean field off Old US 264 in Wilson County near Saratoga.
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Pride of the Pack
North Carolina’s Longest Serving Governor
Jim Hunt
Casualties of War
Casualties of War
Two of the 35 men honored in NC State’s iconic Memorial Tower on NC State’s main campus were from Wilson.
Joshua Barnes Farmer Jr. served as a corporal in Company M in the U.S. Army 26th Infantry. He was killed in action in France on July 18, 1918.
John Quincey “Pap” Jackson was a chemist for the Sanitary Corps, who died of pneumonia at Camp Upton, New York. He attended both NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill. [The Names in the Belltower.]