1st Lieutenant Octavius Augustus Wiggins Company E, 37th North Carolina Infantry, Lane’s Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, Third Corps Resident: Halifax County, North Carolina Enlisted: June 1862 Wiggins was wounded near here during the Breakthrough . . . — — Map (db m15326) HM
Born in Halifax County, North Carolina, William Wright Morris moved with his family to Coosa County, Alabama, in 1840. He taught school, studied law, and was elected judge. In 1847 he brought his mother, widowed sister Martha (Morris) Spivey, her . . . — — Map (db m266766) HM
Chickasaw Indian removal began in July 1837. This removal allowed white settlers to establish residence in Colbert County. One example of this is the Mhoon family who migrated from Halifax County, North Carolina in June 1837. They built their . . . — — Map (db m244515) HM
Governor of N.C., 1817-20, and of the Florida Territory, Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator. Home was four blocks, grave is ½ mile, west. — — Map (db m221529) HM
Constructed around 1808 for a Halifax County planter named Lewis Bond, this house was originally located near Scotland Neck. In 1834, William “Billy” Ruffin Smith Sr. and his wife Sarah, or “Sally” bought it. Smith, a county court justice, died in . . . — — Map (db m222083) HM
Champion of liberalism. Member, State Supreme Court, 1889-1924; Chief Justice, 1902-24. Editor, State Records of N.C. Home, "Airlie," was here. — — Map (db m221077) HM
Born September 1st, 1862. Publisher of the first and only black newspaper in Scotland Neck called: The News Reporter from 1919 to 1925.
Secretary of the Halifax County Emancipation Association; one of the founders of the North Carolina State . . . — — Map (db m227066) HM
You are looking toward a site of American Patriot General Nathanael Greene’s strategic “Retreat to the Dan” which occurred on February 14, 1781. This retreat foiled British General Cornwallis’s southern strategy and was a turning point in the . . . — — Map (db m30951) HM
Near here is the site where John Crowell lived, died, and is interred. Colonel Crowell was born in Halifax County, North Carolina, on September 18, 1780; moved to Alabama in 1815, having been appointed as Agent of the United States to the . . . — — Map (db m26116) HM
A 1769 map of Halifax shows a large building on this site. This lot, along with three surrounding ones, belonged to Joseph Montfort, a man of high standing in 18th-century North Carolina. He served as Clerk of Court for Edgecomb and Halifax . . . — — Map (db m222094) HM
Eighteenth-century towns were important gatherinsg spaces for people from various backgrounds. Halifax, on the south bank of the Roanoke River and at the intersection of major roads, became a major trade center and port during this period. . . . — — Map (db m207804) HM
In April 1861, Louis Froelich, a Bavarian immigrant, began manufacturing uniform buttons in Wilmington for North Carolina soldiers. With Hungarian partner Col. Bela Estvan, Froelich operated his first arms factory for the Confederacy from November . . . — — Map (db m77289) HM
The Weldon terminus of the Roanoke Navigation Canal was the site of the first industrial complex in Halifax County. Located between the boat basin and the river, the site utilized the canal’s constant and regulated flow to power a variety of . . . — — Map (db m222112) HM
Brigadier general in the Revolutionary War, member of Provincial Congresses. Died, 1781, as British prisoner of war. Home was 60 yds. E. — — Map (db m221773) HM
Pittsylvania County. Area 1,015 square miles. Formed in 1766 from Halifax and named for William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, British statesman. This is the largest county in Virginia. The home of Claude A. Swanson, Governor of . . . — — Map (db m300118) HM
Abundant water and fertile land in this area south of the Tennessee River attracted pioneer settlement in the early 1800s. The community established here by three Virginia-born brothers, Hopkins, John, and Theophilus Lacy, took on their name and . . . — — Map (db m27611) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
