Boon's Mill
Inscription
Here on July 28, 1863, a
Confederate force repulsed a
Union march on the vital
Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad. Breastworks 50
yds. S.W.
Location
Sources
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Matt W. Ransom
Confederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico.
Bernice Kelly Harris 1891-1973
Seaboard, NC
Novelist, playwright, & storyteller of rural eastern N.C. Author, Purslane (1939), Sweet Beulah Land (1943).
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.