Hollister in Halifax County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Sidney Weller
1791-1854
Photographed by Michael Buckner, April 15, 2023
1. Sidney Weller Marker
Erected 1982 by North Carolina Office of Archives and History. (Marker Number E-92.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Agriculture.
Location. 36° 15.826′ N, 77° 53.245′ W. Marker is in Hollister, North Carolina, in Halifax County. It is on Medoc State Park Road one mile south of North Carolina Route 4, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2423-1279 Medoc State Park Rd, Hollister NC 27844, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: William H. Wills (approx. 2.7 miles away); Walter Clark (approx. 5.6 miles away); Bartholomew F. Moore (approx. 7.9 miles away); Gold Mines (approx. 8.3 miles away); Eden Church (approx. 10½ miles away); Person's Ordinary (approx. 11.4 miles away); Littleton College (approx. 11.8 miles away); Willis Alston, Jr. (approx. 11.9 miles away).
Also see . . . Sidney Weller.
Sidney Weller, physician, nurseryman, clergyman, and planter, was born in Crawford, Orange County (then the town of Montgomery in Ulster County), N.Y., the eldest of seven children of Hendrick (Henry) and Ann Kidd Weller. They were of a German Palatine family that had settled in the colony of New York in 1709. There seems to be no record of Sidney's early life, but he clearly was well educated and, inasmuch as other members of the Weller family were baptized in the Goodwill Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, he probably was as well. On 14 Aug. 1813, however, he was admitted to Graham's Associate Reformed Church in Montgomery and described as a teacher. At one time, when he resided in Crawford, he was identified as a minister. He witnessed a will in Montgomery, N.Y., on 1 May 1811. In the 1820s Weller moved to Halifax County, N.C., and in the community of Brinkleyville acquired a 400-acre farm on very poor-quality land for which he paid $1.50 an acre. He intended to demonstrate how the soil could be improved and the land made productive.(Submitted on April 22, 2023, by Michael Buckner of Durham, North Carolina.)
Credits. This page was last revised on April 24, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 22, 2023, by Michael Buckner of Durham, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 294 times since then and 19 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on April 22, 2023, by Michael Buckner of Durham, North Carolina. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
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