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8314
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Rock Landing, once a riverside commercial center, mushroomed from the wooded hills along the Roanoke River in Halifax County, flourished for three decades, and then died. The town grew out of a land boom created by a grant in 1812 to construct a canal that would carry river traffic around the rapids of the Roanoke River. Cadwallader Jones began selling lots of land adjacent to Buzzard Rock, proposing the name “Rock Landing” for the town. The town flourished until the 1850s, when the eroding banks of the canal and constant flooding led to its demise in the mid-1870s. Now, the town is mostly submerged under water, leaving only a remnant of the main road leading from Roanoke Landing to Halifax.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 9, Feb 1984, p8-10, il, por
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8460
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Buzzard Town, located about twenty miles north of Rocky Mount, was a small town that received little publicity. During the Great Depression the Resettlement Administration placed a number of farmers around Buzzard Town. When many of these farmers failed, they went to work in the local mills. Buzzard Town became famous for a baseball game played between the hometown Bears and the Enfield Eagles. The Bears had not beaten the Eagles that season and were losing again 15-1 in the last game. A Bears hitter, however, finally drove a homerun. The ball bounced and landed in the car of a passing train. According to the rules at that time, the Bears hitter could continuously circle the bases till the ball was put back into play. An Eagles team member jumped on a horse and recovered the ball in Rocky Mount. By the time he returned, the Eagles were losing 120-15. The Eagles decided to forfeit the game, so the Buzzard Town Bears won the game.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 1, June 1983, p19-20, il
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8567
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In 1770, Captain John Collet's map of North Carolina showed a string of ordinaries from the Chowan River to the Yadkin River. An ordinary was a commercial building serving to satiate travelers during colonial times. By 1800, the term “ordinary” was replaced by “tavern,” to mean a place catering to social drinking, and later by “inn” as taverns began to provide overnight accommodations. Many businesses that were run by farmers, however, remained taverns due to a lack of space for lodging. Taverns sprang up every few miles in the towns of the colonial period and thrived until the train became the popular means of transportation. The Halifax ordinary, “Sign of the Thistle,” is where both the Halifax Resolves and the North Carolina Constitution were written over tankards of ale. Minstrels visiting the area came to entertain clientele. The building was remodeled and later called Eagle Hotel. The Marquis de Lafayette spent the night there on February 27, 1825. Both Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk visited another tavern, the York Tavern, in Rockford, North Carolina. By the end of the 1800s, the railroad had laid tracks in North Carolina and most of the taverns fell into disuse.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 50 Issue 5, Oct 1982, p16-18, il
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8841
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Pole Hollow, a small valley between Pinnacle and Pilot Mountain, played host to Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. and his mother in 1910. Only five-years-old at the time, Reynolds was part of the famous Reynolds tobacco manufacturing family, and his mother asked everyone to call him “Dick.”
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 48 Issue 8, Jan 1981, p22-23, il, por
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8894
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Visitors have been coming to Pilot Mountain for many years. Located in Surry County, Pilot Mountain is a rock protrusion that elevates two-hundred feet from its base. Visitors once could climb to the mountain's peak by way of four oak ladders that were attached to the rock face. Guided by locals, visitors were led to a place on the mountain with a rock formation that closely resembles a man's footprint. Local legend says that Moses stepped off the ark and left the footprint. Climbing to the mountaintop is no longer possible as the North Carolina Parks Department now maintains the property. The ladders are gone and people are no longer allowed to climb to the mountaintop because the area is classified as a wildlife refuge.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 8, Jan 1984, p11, por
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In 1789, Rockford was founded as the new county seat of Surry County. The county was divided in 1850 and the new seat was moved to Dobson and Rockford stopped growing. When the Southern Railway Company built a line that went through Rockford in 1890, the town boomed again. Rockford flooded in 1916 and has never fully recovered.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 47 Issue 1, June 1979, p12-14, il
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9272
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The Nick Dalton House in Stokes County fed and lodged travelers of the nearby stage line. The house was nicknamed The Halfway House. In 1840, Dalton bought 3,000 acres of land to farm tobacco, build a flour mill, distillery, and a large general store. The success of the house along with the new business enterprises made Dalton a wealthy man and secured the same future for his children.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 7, Dec 1978, p26-28, il
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9309
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The giant oak tree in J. W. Denny's yard in Surry County is called The Giles Whitaker Tree after the man who built the house that still stands there. At shoulder height, the tree's circumference measures eighteen feet and four inches. Although the age of the tree is unknown, it is not inconceivable for its life to have begun before 1800.\r\n
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 47 Issue 10, Mar 1980, p23, il
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9376
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Around 1914 mountain-dwellers in covered-wagon caravans trekked from between Pipers Gap and Low Gap to sell their produce at the markets of Winston-Salem. Often setting up camp at Pole Hollow on their way, the mountain folk brought a foreign way of life to the Piedmont towns below.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 42 Issue 7, Dec 1974, p12-13, il
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