Halifax County, North Carolina:
Transportation and Industry
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Eagle Tavern Built in 1790s. Banquet for Lafayette held on February 27, 1825 when tavern was on original site 900 ft. northeast (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
Extant Railroad/Railway Structures (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
First Kraft Pulp in United States Was made here by the sulphate process using southern pine in 1909, by the Roanoke Rapids Paper Manufacturing Company (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
Halifax County N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880 (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
Halifax County Bridges (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
Patents Halifax County, North Carolina (Source: Google Patents)
Person's Ordinary In operation by 1770. Revolutionary tavern & stage stop. Named for family of Thomas Person. Restored by Littleton Woman's Club. One blk. E (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Chartered 1835, completed 1840. Gaston, its terminal town, now extinct, was 3 mi. N.E (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
Roanoke Canal Canal and locks completed around river rapids, 1834. Highway crosses canal route here. A lock is 200 feet south (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
Roanoke Canal Canal and locks around river rapids completed 1834 by Roanoke Navigation Company. Highway crosses route of canal at this point (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Longest railroad in the world when completed in 1840. Length 161 1/2 mi. Terminus was nearby (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
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