Historical Marker

Bernice Kelly Harris 1891-1973

NC 305 (Main Street) at Harris Street in Seaboard · Seaboard · Northampton

North Carolina marker

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

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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.