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SUNDAY ER SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1924 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COUNTY OF RICHMOND had Its beginnings only a few years ago I refer to the growing of peeehes folloWing the discovery that the sand hills Will produce as fine peaches as ean be grown any where in the world This new industry rapidly converting the waste places into orchards and addIng wealth to the people BY WHITLOCK Street noise that didn't flatter so much now exelte the apprehenslon on the part of a driver that his motor has fallen out and is Ployea wall small balloons awl teicks "aerial polo" becomin4 popular among girls who are expert riders of ponies same should be adjourned to such the name of General Henry William courthouse Harrington appears more frequently The first court was accordingly than that of any other per son an held in December 1779 at the he was the most Important citizen rresbyterian meeting house which of the county of the revolutionary was located in what is now known period and for many years thereon the Zion neighborhood near! after General Harrington was It where the present home of Sandy native or London England Re Nicholn stands The next court emigrated to Jamaica and from Wall held in John Cole's barn which I there to Virginia then to North was located near where the home Carolina Ile received from the of the late covington now 1 King of England a grant of land stande about a half mile southweet along the Pee Dee river He rotor the town of Rockingham At tied on a ridge near the river on the first eession of the county court 1 the plantation now owned by IL Valiant Love was eleeted clerk I Well former by Thos 1910res John Donaldson sheriff Charles He and others of hie Immediate Medlock register of deeds Jarneti family are buried near the spot Ificke and George Walters coroners where they lived Robert Webb entry-taker John General Harrington held the rank Crawford surveyor and William of brigadier general in the revoleLegate ranger tionary war and the inscription on The act appointed Henry William I his tombstone records that he John Donaldson Wil- I dered dietinguiehed service in the liam Legate John Cole Robert army of America" The tare of the Webb Hobert Thomas and Richard 1 country from Anion to the ftea oast pernberton commimelonere to con- was committed to him In 1 780 tract for the erection of a court- Fran-is Marlon the "Swamp Fox" houtie primon and stocks fon use of WWI under his command Ho wan the county of Richmond at such one of the first representatives from place as they or a majority of them the county in the legislature wee might agree Upon as near the cen- One of the end trrniteeft of the miter of the county as convenience versity and was a trustee of Sallee would admit of and to purchase bury academy as well an Richmond 80 acres of land for said purpose academy and served his state and pemberton cotnntiesionere to con- was committed to him in 1780 tract for the erection of a court- Frande Marlon the "Swamp Fox" house prison and Mocks to use of was under hie command He was the county of Richmond at such one of the first representatives from place as they or a majority of them the county Jn the legislature NVaa might agree Upon as near the cen- One of the find truotteem if the uniter of the county as convenience versity and was a trustee of Sallee would admit of and to purchase bury acadetny as well at Richmond 80 acres of land for said purpose academy and served his state and I Seaboard Air' Line bridge eastward by alizpah church and intersected the Cheraw road at Cognac This led to Fayetteville Aaron Burr is said to have traversed the old Cheraw road in his flight after killing Alexander Hamilton June 1 1780 General Casweirs brigade crossed the Fee Dee at lialley's ferry in retreat from Camden to Fayetteville The Catfish road led front Blewetts falls to the mouth of Naked creek and tradition says tiff ao named from the fact that they hauled catfish over it 'from the river to the American moldiers camped at Naked creek In 1782 a road was opened from points west of the Pee Dee river to Fayetteville crossing the river of "Shallow Ford" later known as "Grassy Islands" This was in or! der to provide an outlet at Fayette' villa for the PhipmPnt of innigo and tobacco South Carolina having levied a tarff which rendered it burdensome to ship through that etate It was not unusual for a etate to impose a duty on goods imported from another state In 1761 the general amembiy of North Carolina imposd a duty on the impertation of rum from South Carolina into An-eon which then included Richmond The preamble of the act reads as follows "Whereas the Inhabitants of Anson county do make quantities of strong liquors eumcent for thr own use and the frequent inportation of rum wine and other splritous liquorst into Anson county from South Carolina only drains the lithabitants of their substanee and to greatly detrimental to their famflies etc" It was provided by the act of 1779 creating the county that a court should he held constantly by the justices thereof On the fret Mondays in March June Septetnher and December and the justices' were authorized and empowered to hold the first court at the Freelyterien tneeting house near Hitchcock Creek on the last Monday in December 1779 and subsequent' 'courts oil the days mentioned at any place to whith the said juritices should from court to court adjourn themselves until a courthouse should be built for the county after which all cases matters and things de! pending in said court and all man-net of process returnable to the nished its full quoto of men in all our wars The tirst of several companies raised for service in the cause of the eonterieracy was organized in Rockingham in May 1861 and was inown as the Dee Dee Guards It eensieted of 82 pen The were 13 Webb captain James Knight first lieutenant: John Cole second lieutenant Brqljalll in coviegton Jr third lieutenant NVilliam Coxingten first sergeant: itellfiOn Lied better first corporal: Ilenry Carr second corporal and William tilbson third corporal In March 1 4t eherrnan'it raid passed over the county Kilpatrick's cavalry came into the county from Cheraw passed through Rockingham and on to Fayetteville They committed ma ny depredations drove off the cattle and horses stole all available provisions and moveable personal property burned barns gin houses and outbuildings and burned the Richmond cotton mills which etood on the site of the preeent Great Falls factory Some of the records in the courthouse were darn-awed by the Poldipra A small detachment of Wheeler's cavalry was in Rockingham when the union army entered They retired across Hitchcock creek and burned the bridge behind them Richmond county wae one of the pioneer cottou manufacturing counties of the south The first cotton mill was built in 1846 on the present he of Great Fails factory It was known as the Richmond Cotton mills Waiter Leak W38 its first president It was replaced in 1868 by Great Falls The Pee poe Manufacturing company built 4 Its first mill in 1876 There are 12 cotton mails in the county at the present time The industry in Richmond county has been singularly free from discord between the owners and operatives The companies are owned almost wholly by loeal capital and are onerated by native help The first railroad to he built Into the county was the Wilmington Charlotte end Rutherford later known as the Carolina Central and now a part of the Seeboard Air Line Titillway system It was completed from Wilmington to Rockingham in 1869 The Bank of Pee Dee is the oldest bank in the county It was eatablished in 1891 There are now 10 banks in the county One of the greatest economic developments in the county's history Velopments in the county's history McFarland Darby Ilarragan to the convention of 1835 Alfred Dockery Henry Harrington a son of the general 1861 Walter Leak 1865 Alfred Dockery 1868 Long Sr 1875 Oliver ii Dockery Alfred Dockery was elected to Congress from this district in 1845 and again in Mt Oliver IL Dockery woe elected to Congrees in 1865 and berved one term NValter Steele was elected to Congress in 1877 and eerved till 1881 About the year 1850 there was an era of plank-road building Companies were chartered foe the building of ttich roads all over the state They were given the rght of eminent domain end-derived their revenue from toile Their earnings In any One year were limited by law to 25 per rent of their capital stock They were constructed by laying aleePers lengthwise on the road -bed and then laying a floor on these boards three or four inches thick It was supposed- that a round of title sort would afford cheaper trantsportation than the railroads The legislature that year granted a charter to he Fayetteville end Center Plank-Road company to build a road from Fayetteville to Concord The road Wag constructed from Fayetteville to Little's Mille in Richmond county In 1851 the general assembly passed an act creating out of parts of Richmond and Robeson a new county to be named Ilooper in honor of William Hooper one of the North Carolina signers of the declaration of independence An election was held or the first Thursday in May 1851 in Richmond end Robeson counties at which the question was submitted to a vote of the people The new county was lost In 1899 Laurel Spring Hill Stewartsville and Williamson township' were cut off from Richmond county and erected into the county of Scotland The town of Rockingham-was incorporated in 1861 The corporate limits extended 400 yards north and south of the courthouse 350 yards west and One-half mile east In 1867 the area was extended so as to include a strip of land one-half mile wide measured north and louth with the center ottithe eastern boundary three-fourths of a mile east of i the courthouse door and the west-1 ern line of Hitchcock and Falling creeks between the north and south lines projected The county has fur lines projected The tounty has fur- Official Representatives For Official Represents For (Read at the dedication of the new Richmond county courthoun's at Lock Ingham September I) The history of itiehmond county as such begins in 1779 Prior to that time It had been a part of Modern and later when Anson was cut off from Diadem a part of Anson In 1779 the general assembly of North Carolina then in session at itallfax passed an act dividing Anson county and creating Mchmond out of that part of Anson lying on the northeast side of the Pee Dee river In the preamble of the act the reason given for the diviaion was the trouble many of the inhabitants were put to to attend the reurte and other public meetings on account of the large extent of the county and the difficulty of croseing the Pee Dee river especial fy when the waters were high At that time the country woe sparsely Pet tied There were no downs The prinelpal eettlemente wore up and down the Iieet Dee river and extending eastWard over a 'drip four or five I iC4 wide embracing the Clay lands There WM a predominance of English stoek the Scotch not having emne till later Forum of the settlers had come by way of Virginia or Pennsylvania f)In 01 up the river from South cern lino Among them were a number of men of force end ability whose med htt ancestors or who thetneelves had atiouired large artiste of thiA forthe land Among them may be mentioned Henry William Itarrington John Cole Israel Sneed dohn Crawford William Illewett Imam HaileY Thomas Dockery William Leak Very little of the land was cleared Here and there these early settlere had hewn down the forest and estiblathe'l homes These were usually a mile or so apart The prIncipal money 'trope wore indlgo and tobacco There were few churchen Ind most families had private burying ground'' The woods aboundsd with deer turkey and other game while wolves end bear were not uncommon and beavers built their dams on many creeks In 1773 a law was paseed providing for the payment of a bounty of 10 shillings for every wolf killed Jr' the county within 10 miles of any settled plantatIon For a panther the bounty wan 10 shillings and for a wild cat two ehillinge six pence In 1775 It was enacted that every master or Mietrese of a family and overseer of a plantation when the master or mietrese of a family did not In the county should kill or caume to be killed In every year seven erowe or squirrels' for each taxable he or she should tale under the penalty of forfeiting and paying four pence for every crow or squirrel he or else ehould negleet to kill or cause' to be killed short of the required number East of the clay lande there were a few settlers but they were widely scattered That part of the county was practically one mighty forest 40 miles long by 20 wide containing 600000 acres of longleaf pine timber as fine as there was In the world which if it had been left standing till today would be worth 5100000000 but which alas has been destreyed without the nerichment of any mae The predominant rellgion Presbyterian There was a Quaker settlement in Wolf Pit townehip whele the old burying ground may Kill be seem The first Baptist church in the county vas Pee Dee ehurch established in 1785 I am unable to give its The roads were few and barely passable The most important road was the Elver road running north and south This crossed marks creek below the present site of the Everett mill croesed flitehcock creek at Steele mill and led by the tirasey islands and on across Little river and into Montgomery county The Halley's Ferry road led from Ealley'e ferry on the Pee Dee river about three miles below the present It 1 -c 4 1 st vifigti'l It ics and to reimburse the commissionicounty in other important offices A ere for the money expended by street In Raleigh is named for him them in urehasing the 60 of lie died March 31 1809 at the age land and the erection of the build- Of 62 By his will he dispoeed of inept it 'was provided that a tax of over a hundred slaves and many two shillings on the hundred pounds thoutuinde of acres of land should be assessed On the taxable The county's firet state men ator was Charles Medlock the first rep- property in the county for three I I resentatives Henry Muffins-ton years and two shillings on all tax- able persons not possessed of tax and Robert Webb 1780 In 1 784 able property of the value of 100 Charles Robertson representative pounds from Richmond WAS expelled from The cornmiseioners pursuant to the house on proof of his having the authority granted them pur- been attaehed to and having held chased 50 acres of land a short die- communication with the British 'twice east of the fork of Hitchcock troops near the great Pee Dee In and Falling creeks The general 1780 Him conduct during the war assembly of 1784 pasted an act au- was found to have been "ipimical thorizleg the commissions to lay out mean and servile" and he was dealt the public landm purchatted for dared to be unworthy 'of his seat the use of the public at Richmond The action of the legislature was courthouse into a town of half acre upon petition of citizens of Rich lots with proper streets etc which mond county supported by affidashould he called and known by the vita name of Rockingham They were This however did not prevent his to reserve one or more of the lots being elected a delegate to the con-for the use of the public buildings stitutional convention of 1788 The and to dispose of the remainder other delegates to that convention towards raising the money for cent- were John McAllister Edward VIIpleting the public buildings The Hams and Benjamin Covington Del 41 I ri Batteries-- Philadelphia Diamond Grid Magnetos-- Etoernan lplirdort Remy Tong le Bearings-- Timken Hyatt New Departure Starters Wertinghonse North East Delco Remy Dyneto Wagner Batteries-- Philadelphia Diamond Magnetos-- Eteernan tplirdort Remy Teagle Bearings-- Timken Hyatt New Departure Starters Generators Westinghonse North East Delco Remy Dyneto Wagner GARRETTS GARRET Electromotive Service 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In 1780 some 600 tortes under the command of Samuel Bryant marched from Rowan county Into brings the Montgomery and as far as the Ford fection of Grassy Islands on the Pee Dee river in Richmond county They took many prisoners marched them treross the river at the ford and It gives were there joined by British dra- 1 provement Koons of the 71st regimeht whose headquarters were at Aneon court- mark of sup house Judge Spencer held a special court in Richmond to try tories and rioters Richmond was called highest pric on in June 1780 to furnish n6 men to General Rutherford's Ina- i Appearanc gade Col Thomas Wade after ik whom the town of Wadeshoro was Power! named made raids on the tones and killed a number of them Ile had in lils regiment 60 Richmond 1 county men engine that IIn 1781 American currency was NOW the very much depreciated and the gen- i eral assembly fixed the priees for smoothness articles furnished he public in Richmond county They were as I follows: Corn 10 lbs per bushel rum 120 lbs a gollan salt 640 lbs vibration I a bushel In 1785 a part of Mont- Romeo' was added to Richmond In 1786 the general assembly ssebly au thorized a tax to build a jail In automobile that year the first state census was taken and showed that there were 2 585 people in Richmond These were made up as follows: White men from 21 to 60 years 289 under 12 and over 60 years 767 white females 1126 blacks from 12 to 60 years 168 under 12 and over 60 years 154 George Medlock was the eollector of the United States taxee in the eounty A tobacco inspection ware- house for the county was estab- lished on the land of William Blewett near the Pee Dee river 1 The U- census of 1790 gave the county 782 white beads of families In 1781 a part of Montgomery i was added to Richmond In the early annals of the county From across imports device that as old industry away entirely engine manufacturers for years to Willys-Knight the installation epochal standard invites the its amazing This British ma7ing as gives the smoothness brings the It gives mark of highest priced Power! And engine that Now the vibration automobile he I county 782 white heads of families In 1788 a Part Of Montgomery 1 was added to Richmond In the early annals of the county hoube was built like an old rash- Watson William Robinson Duncan ioned gin house resting on pillars so that wagons could be driven dpeurbilitc IstquWaarett in 11eefictoeurrthfothsee 5 tmod until some time in the fortiee When i as moed to IA the out shwest corner of the square and converted into a store Many of the older persons will remember the old Long and 4ooper store which was torn down some SO yevis ago That building was the oritinal Richmond county courthouse It waa succeed ed by a brick building which stood until 1888 when it was destroyed by tire The courthouse which is just now being vacated was built in the year 1889 The land on which the town stands Will conveyed to i the commissioners by John Cole and John James The justices of the peace of An- son county before the divtsion were eontinued justices of the Peace for the respectivecounties in which they resided after the division and all militia officers Were likewine continued It was enacted that the first general election for the county of Richmond should be held at the In'Ireenstblyotneerdian meetingne houseassabov ye passed an act establiehing an academy In RiChmond county The teen named in the act ere Hen- ry William Harrington Thomas across From trus Dockery Thos Crawford Miles King Edward Williams Matthew Knight imports Covington larael Sneed John How- device that ard William Thomaa William Love Dudly Mk ad easn 'William Hunter lem as old gr They were authorized to re- coive subscriptions for the purpose mobile industry of ereeting an academy to be known away entirely as Richmond academy They were authorized to employ a tutor or tu- tors and do everything necessary and expedient for the advancement engine manufacturers of the academy and the promotion of learning therein They were au- for years to thorized to make and ordain such rules and regulations not repugnant to the laws of this state for the Willys-Knight well-ordering of the students their morals studies and academical ex- ercises as to them should seem the installation meet and to give certificates to such epochal I students as should leave the said standard academY certifying their literary merit but they were not to confer any degree such a Baehelor of Arts invites th or Doctor In any faculty The acad' emy was duly established and ex- its anaazing pal institution of learning in isted for many years as the prinel- eta county The county was named In honor 1 of Charles Lennox Duke of Rich- mond who was the principal secre- i tary of state in the second adminia- tration of William Pitt prime min- ister of England Theduke was a devoted friend of the American Col- miles and made the motion In the 1 house of lords that they be granted their independence The county 1 1 seat was named for Charles Wateon This British Weneworth Marquis of Rocking- i ham lie was the leader of the i Arna7ing as pa rty in the British parliament which advocated American indepen- dence and Wlig prime minister when gives the the odious peal tamp Act was re- ed smoothness In 1780 some 800 tortes under command of Samuel Bryant st brings the marched from Rowan county into Montgomery and as far as the Ford lection of Grassy Islands on the PeDee river in Richmond county They took many prisoners marched them 1 It eives that a the in Richmond eaxtirtsot Isoutailttel a In taken and showed that there were These were made up as follo 2 85 pws: hate men from 21 to 60 years 289e under 12 and over 60 Yetrs 757 white females 1126 blacks from 12 to 60 years 168 under 12 and over 60 years 154 1 George Medlock was the collec- tor of the Unit United States taxes in the county A tobacco inspection ware house for the county was lished on the land of William PI Wt17 near the Pee Dee river The census of 1790 gave the county 782 white heads of families Prove the facts yourself Go to your 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