Matt W. Ransom
Inscription
Confederate General, United
States Senator, 1872-95, and
Minister to Mexico. Home
stands 800 yards south.
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Bernice Kelly Harris 1891-1973
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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.
First Railroad
The first railroad in the State was completed in 1833 from Petersburg, Va.