Topics Related to Halifax County
Canal and locks around river rapids completed 1834 by Roanoke Navigation Company. Highway crosses route of canal at this point.
Canal and locks completed around river rapids, 1834. Highway crosses canal route here. A lock is 200 feet south.
Chartered in 1883 as Central Institute and in 1887 as Littleton Female College. Burned 1919. Was located here.
President Washington was a visitor in the town of Halifax, on April 16-17, 1791.
Longest railroad in the world when completed in 1840. Length 161 1/2 mi. Terminus was nearby.
Chartered 1835, completed 1840. Gaston, its terminal town, now extinct, was 3 mi. N.E.
Governor of N.C., 1817-20, and of the Florida Territory, Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator. Home was four blocks, grave is 1/2 mile, west.
The British Army under Gen. Cornwallis marching to Virginia defeated the local Militia at the town of Halifax, in May, 1781.
Noted Confederate ironclad, was built near this spot, 1863-64. Aided in recapture of Plymouth, April, 1864.
Key Anti-Federalist and an advocate for states’ rights in Revolutionary era N.C. His home, “The Grove,” was 2/10 mi. W.