{"id":4,"date":"2011-11-22T23:50:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T04:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:20:27","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rockingham NCGenWeb is not a part of Rockingham County government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rockingham County, also called the North Star County, is bordered on the east by\u00a0Caswell County, on the west by\u00a0Stokes County, on the south by\u00a0Guilford County — and on the north by two counties in Virginia: Henry County to the northwest and Pittsylvania County to the northeast.\u00a0 Rockingham County’s area was part of Guilford County from 1771 to 1785.\u00a0 It was named after<\/span> Charles Watson-Wentworth<\/a><\/span>, who was the Second Marquis of Rockingham.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rockingham County was established by a vote of the North Carolina General Assembly on December 29, 1785, from the northern half of what was Guilford County at the time — and what was the northern third of Original Guilford County, which gave up its southern third to create Randolph County in 1779.\u00a0 Early settlements arose in the Troublesome Creek valley.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Nathanael Greene<\/a> and his\u00a0soldiers stayed in this area before and after the<\/span> Battle of Guilford Courthouse<\/a>.\u00a0George Washington also visited this site in an effort to rally these troops as they continued their fight in the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 Interestingly enough,<\/span> Banastre Tarleton<\/a>, who was known for his unnecessary cruelty during the war, and his soldiers camped out in the very same location days after Greene’s army had moved on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Leaksville and Wentworth are the two earliest towns in Rockingham County.\u00a0 Leaksville was established in 1795 and Wentworth,\u00a0the county seat, was established in 1799.\u00a0 Other towns include:<\/span>\u00a0Eden<\/a>, Madison<\/a>, Mayodan<\/a>,\u00a0Reidsville<\/a>, and\u00a0Stoneville<\/a>.\u00a0 Other communities are: Huntsville, Shiloh, Bethany, Ruffin, and Monroeton. Waterways served as an important means of transportation throughout the county’s industrial period.\u00a0 As a result, many textile mills were located near rivers, including both the Dan and Haw Rivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once the Civil War approached, this county was initially very divided on whether or not to support the Union or the Confederates.\u00a0 Finally, a decision was made to secede on May 20, 1861.\u00a0 Rockingham County sent a total of 1,711 soldiers to the frontline and compensated each soldier and their family with $25,000.\u00a0 A portion of these soldiers participated in the battle of Gettysburg.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Information is from\u00a0Rockingham County:\u00a0 A Brief History by Lindley S. Butler, copyrighted.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rockingham NCGenWeb is not a part of Rockingham County government. Rockingham County, also called the North Star County, is bordered on the east by\u00a0Caswell County, on the west by\u00a0Stokes County, on the south by\u00a0Guilford County — and on the north by two counties in Virginia: Henry County to the northwest and Pittsylvania County to the … Continue reading “Welcome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/rockingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}