Rocky Mount

Rocky Mount
a city in NE North Carolina. 41,283.

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      city, Nash and Edgecombe counties, east-central North Carolina, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Raleigh. The area was settled in the mid-1700s by Virginians after the war (1711–13) with the Tuscarora Indians (Tuscarora). The name Rocky Mount, first used in 1816 to designate the location of the area's first post office, was probably derived from the rocky mounds and ridges along its site near the falls of the Tar River. After the arrival of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in 1840, it developed as a rail centre and merged with the village of Rocky Mount Hills (established 1818) that had grown around cotton mills by the falls. Rocky Mount was destroyed by Union troops in 1863 during the American Civil War.

      The railroad tracks of the Seaboard Coast Line bisect the main street and mark the boundary between the two counties. The city has one of the world's largest bright-leaf tobacco markets, and its diversified manufactures include pharmaceuticals, textiles, furniture, fabricated metals, and chemicals. North Carolina Wesleyan College, founded in 1956, is there. City Lake, created in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project and subsequently improved, is a popular recreation area for the two counties. Inc. 1867. Pop. (1990) 48,997; (2000) 55,893.

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