Cornwallis
Inscription
Ending his campaign in North
Carolina, he entered
Virginia near here in May,
1781, and surrendered at
Yorktown on October 17,
1781.
Location
AddressUS 301 north of Pleasant Hill at NC/VA boundary
CountyNorthampton
StateNorth Carolina
Coordinates36.543250, -77.530380
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.
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.