Record #:

5888

Author(s):

Comer, Susan L.

Abstract:

Roxboro, located in Person County. is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month. Comer discusses a number of the town's sites, including the National Register Historic District, and famous people who lived there, such as Enos Slaughter, St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball player, and Robert Lester Blackwell, the first North Carolinian to win the Medal of Honor in World War I.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 2, July 2003, p18-20, 22-23, il

Subject(s):

Roxboro--Description and travel