Northampton
Allen Jones
Brigadier General during the Revolution, member of Provincial Congress and of Continental Congress.
Bernice Kelly Harris 1891-1973
Seaboard, NC
Novelist, playwright, & storyteller of rural eastern N.C. Author, Purslane (1939), Sweet Beulah Land (1943).
Boon's Mill
Here on July 28, 1863, a Confederate force repulsed a Union march on the vital Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
Cornwallis
Ending his campaign in North Carolina, he entered Virginia near here in May, 1781, and surrendered at Yorktown on October 17, 1781.
First Railroad
The first railroad in the State was completed in 1833 from Petersburg, Va.
George V. Holloman 1902-1946
Colonel U.S. Air Force, World War II.
Lemuel Burkitt
Pastor Sandy Run Baptist Church, 1773-1807.
Matt W. Ransom
Confederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico.
Paul H. Rose 1881-1955
Seaboard, NC
Entrepreneur; opened in Henderson, 1915, first in chain of discount stores in southeast U.S. Boyhood home 1/2 mi. SW.
Rich Square Monthly Meeting
Woodland, NC
Society of Friends (Conservative).
Thomas Bragg
Jackson, NC
Attorney-General of Confederacy, Governor of N.C. 1855-59, U.S. Senator.