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.]
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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.]