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Containing small summaries of the six towns in Warren County, this article supplies dates of establishment, information about commerce, as well as the accoutrements in Warrenton, Littleton, Norlina, Ridgeway, Macon, and Vaughan.
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Supplying four governors, six attorney generals, three Supreme Court Justices, and five magnates of the tobacco industry, the people of Warren County have historically been influential men. Nathaniel Macon, William, Phileman, and Benjamin Hawkins, George G. Allen, J. B. Duke, James Turner, William Miller, and Thomas Bragg represent some of the influential men denoted in this article.
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For seventy-seven years, the little engines of the Warrenton Rail Road Company have steamed or growled the three mile way between the Warren County seat and the Seaboard Airline at Warren Plains. Beginning in 1884, North Carolina's smallest railroad, mostly owned by the town of Warrenton, carried passengers and freight, under the direction of conductor, O. P. Shell.
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Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO), is building a dam on the Roanoke River which will result in the formation of a new lake. Encompassing some 23,000 acres, the new \"inland sea,\" will be 34 miles long and contain 350 miles of shoreline. Shared between Warren, Halifax, and Northampton Counties, the new lake will be bordered on the West by the Kerr Reservoir and on the East by the Roanoke Rapids Lake.
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