Inscription
Novelist, playwright, &
storyteller of rural eastern
N.C. Author, Purslane
(1939), Sweet Beulah Land
(1943). Grave 600 yards
west.
Location
AddressNC 305 (Main Street) at Harris Street in Seaboard
CitySeaboard
CountyNorthampton
StateNorth Carolina
Coordinates36.485099, -77.439494
Sources
More markers in Northampton
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.
Cornwallis
Ending his campaign in North Carolina, he entered Virginia near here in May, 1781, and surrendered at Yorktown on October 17, 1781.
Allen Jones
Brigadier General during the Revolution, member of Provincial Congress and of Continental Congress.
First Railroad
The first railroad in the State was completed in 1833 from Petersburg, Va.
