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City in northeast North Carolina

City in Due north Carolina, United States

Rocky Mount, N Carolina

City
City of Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount's City Lake Park

Rocky Mount's City Lake Park

Official logo of Rocky Mount, North Carolina

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Motto(s):

The eye of it all

Location in Edgecombe and Nash Counties and the state of North Carolina.

Location in Edgecombe and Nash Counties and the state of N Carolina.
Coordinates: 35°56′eighteen″Northward 77°47′26″W  /  35.93833°N 77.79056°W  / 35.93833; -77.79056 Coordinates: 35°56′18″N 77°47′26″W  /  35.93833°N 77.79056°Westward  / 35.93833; -77.79056
Country United States
State North Carolina
Counties Edgecombe, Nash
Founded March 22, 1816
Incorporated February nineteen, 1867
Regime
 • Type Quango–Manager
 • Mayor Sandy Roberson
 • Metropolis managing director Peter Varney
 • City council

Members

  • Andre Knight
  • Reuben C. Blackwell, Four
  • Richard Joyner
  • T.J. Walker
  • Lige Daughtridge
  • W.B. Bullock
  • Chris Carroll Miller
Area

[1]

 • City 44.40 sq mi (115.00 kmii)
 • Land 44.xx sq mi (114.47 km2)
 • Water 0.21 sq mi (0.54 kmtwo)
 • Metro 1,045.8 sq mi (2,708.5 km2)
Elevation 98 ft (30 thou)
Population

(2020)
 • Metropolis 54,341
 • Density 1,220.09/sq mi (471.08/kmii)
 • Urban 68,243 (US: 406th)
 • Metro 143,870 (Us: 291th)
 • CSA 288,747 (US: 111th)
Fourth dimension zone UTC−five (EST)
 • Summertime (DST) UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes

27801, 27802, 27803, 27804, 27809, 27815
Area code(s) 252
FIPS code 37-57500
GNIS feature ID 1022368[2]
Interstate Highways I-95.svg I-87.svg
U.S. Highways US 64.svg US 301.svg
State Highways NC 43.svg NC 48.svg NC 97.svg
Website www.rockymountnc.gov

Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the U.S. state of Northward Carolina.[ii] [4] The city's population was 54,341 as of the 2020 census,[5] making it the 19th-almost populous urban center in Due north Carolina. The city is 45 mi (72 km) east of Raleigh, the land capital.

Information technology is the chief urban center of the Rocky Mount metropolitan area, often called the "Twin Counties", which had an estimated population of 143,870 in 2020.[six] [vii] [viii] Rocky Mount is likewise an anchor city of the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids Combined Statistical Area in northeast Due north Carolina with a total population of 288,747 equally of 2020.[six]

Incorporated in 1867, the community at the falls of the Tar River that became the city of Rocky Mount dates from the middle of the 1700s. Historically strong in rail transportation, textiles, and agriculture, the economic system of Rocky Mount has diversified into biomedical pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and logistics.[9] [x] Rocky Mount has too twice received the All-America City Accolade from the National Borough League in 1969 and 1999.[eleven]

History [edit]

Beginnings [edit]

The region around the Tar River was continuously inhabited by indigenous people for 12,000 years earlier the first Europeans arrived, when information technology was home to the Tuscarora people.[12] Europeans began settling the area after the Tuscarora War in the early on 1700s.[13] Similar many other early settlements in colonial America, they settled along the fall line between the Piedmont and littoral plain, which is the point at which rivers go unnavigable sailing upstream and water flowing downstream can ability a mill.[12] The Falls of the Tar River Archaic Baptist Church was established in 1757, which nonetheless meets today, although its original building has since been replaced.[14] Much of the community attended the church building and then that it served equally an early grade of tape keeping and constabulary enforcement with citations given for crimes.[15]

19th century [edit]

A post office was established at the falls of the Tar River on March 22, 1816. At this point, the name "Rocky Mount" officially appears in documented history, undoubtedly referring to the rocky mound at the falls of the Tar River. The 2d cotton fiber mill in Northward Carolina followed presently thereafter, Rocky Mountain Mills, in 1818.[4] Its proprietors were two entrepreneurs and Joel Battle, grandson of an original colonial settler to the area. Joel bought out the other proprietors before turning over the enterprise to his cousin James Smith Battle. The mill'south spindles were initially operated by slaves until the 1850s and so worked exclusively by white women and girls. This female working system lasted for the rest of the century.[7] [xvi]

The Battle family was also involved in the structure of the longest continuous railroad in the earth upwards to that time, the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, which ran about 2 miles (3 km) east of the mill.[7] It connected the area to major ports in Virginia to the north and the port of Wilmington to the south. The tracks first reached Rocky Mount on Christmas Eve in 1839. In 1840, a train of cars en route to Wilmington stopped in Rocky Mountain to import some "Onetime Nash" for special toasts at opening festivities and from there the fame of Nash County apple brandy spread. The railroad exerted a powerful influence on the development of the town and so that, in 1871, the county line moved from the Tar River to its present location in the center of the tracks.[four] The Raleigh-Tarboro stage route also passed simply below Rocky Mount (roughly where I-95 and U.S. 64 run today), and for a fourth dimension was the logical debarking point for railroad travelers wishing to keep east or westward.[4]

The surrounding region was raided in 1863 during the Civil War by Union troops under the command of Brigadier Full general Edward Eastward. Potter. The manufacturing plant, which supplied Confederate yarn and fabric, was burned down. The mill was rebuilt after the war ended.[17] On Feb 19, 1867, the village outside the factory was incorporated as a boondocks.[4]

The latter half of the 19th century saw the tobacco industry take shape in the state. Adjacent to the sandy coastal plain, Rocky Mount was well situated to take advantage of the rapidly rising need for brightleaf tobacco that grew best in the sandy soil.[xviii] Tobacco also shaped the urban center's social life. Warehouses where tobacco was stored and marketed began hosting balls for the community in the 1880s that became known as "june germans" for the time of year and style of dance. June Germans eventually transformed into all-night dance parties and attracted musicians and socialites from miles around well into the 1900s.[19] Past the cease of the 19th century, tobacco had surpassed Male monarch Cotton as the town's primary agricultural production.[18]

20th century [edit]

Rocky Mountain, North Carolina in 1907

A map of Rocky Mount in 1950

The turn of the 20th century saw Rocky Mount become the northern headquarters of the Atlantic Declension Line Railroad and its major repair shops and yard facilities located to the town. With information technology came an influx of railroad employees.[14] In 1900, Rocky Mount's population was effectually 3,000. On Feb 28, 1907, with a population around vii,500, Rocky Mount was officially incorporated every bit a city. A chief railroad line, a well established cotton mill, and productive farmland for brightleaf tobacco were major contributors to the area's growth and prosperity over the side by side decades.[4] A vibrant primal business district arose.[20] As in the balance of the S, though, racial segregation was imposed on the community leading to white suburbs largely on the west side of town, such every bit Villa Place and West Haven, and black neighborhoods largely on the east side of boondocks, like Crosstown and Around the "Y" where jazz musician Thelonious Monk was born.[21]

Several notable Civil Rights events occurred in Rocky Mount. In 1946, African American tobacco warehouse workers voted to organize in Rocky Mount equally part of a broader nationwide movement known as Operation Dixie that led to voter registration and political activity against segregation.[22] On November 27, 1962, Martin Luther Rex Jr. gave a speech at Booker T. Washington High School wherein he used his famous refrain "I have a dream" a year before his better known commitment at the March on Washington.[23] [24] The city too had its own sanitation workers' strike in 1978 when authorities sanitation workers protested their black co-worker being wrongfully arrested leading to his acquittal in courtroom and the metropolis afterwards apologizing.[25]

Downtown Rocky Mount, 1962

After WWII, the city connected to grow and the 1950s and 1960s saw the city's economic system diversify into banking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and the headquarters of a fast food chain known every bit Hardee'due south.[26] New educational facilities were also built including North Carolina Wesleyan Higher in 1956 and Nash Community College and Edgecombe Customs College in 1968. In 1970, Rocky Mount received an All-America Metropolis Accolade. The 1970s also saw the consolidation of the metropolis's hospitals under Nash General Infirmary and the completion of Rocky Mountain–Wilson Regional Drome.[27] [four]

Like much of the residual of America, the 1980s onward saw urban decay of the inner urban center. Rocky Mountain's downtown deteriorated just new neighborhoods and shopping malls were built like Golden Eastward Crossing, and the urban center's boundaries expanded. In 1996, the boondocks of Battleboro to the due north of the city was annexed.[28] [29] In 1999, the city won its second All-America City Award.[eleven]

The fall of 1999 saw two hurricanes make landfall in eastern North Carolina. Both passed over Rocky Mount: Hurricane Dennis as a tropical tempest in August with 20 inches (510 mm) of rain and Hurricane Floyd in September with almost 17 inches (430 mm) of rain. Floyd is especially memorable because near localized flooding happened quickly overnight and many residents were non aware of the flooding until the water came into their homes, requiring many to be rescued. As a effect of the hurricane, the already saturated Tar River suffered the worst flooding in its recorded history, exceeding 500-year alluvion levels along its lower stretches, and many homes and businesses were destroyed.[28] [xxx] [31]

21st century [edit]

The first decades of the 21st century take seen efforts to revitalize the historic downtown and projects to renovate buildings such as the train station and Douglas Block, or repurpose them like the Imperial Centre for Arts and Sciences.[32] In 2007, Capitol Broadcasting Company bought Rocky Mount Mills and is in the process of turning it into a mixed-use campus of breweries, restaurants, lofts, and issue space.[33] There accept also been major new community projects such as the 143-acre (58 ha) sports complex and 165,000-square-foot (15,300 m2) downtown event center.[28] In 2019, CSX, the successor company of the Atlantic Declension Line Railroad, broke ground on a new intermodal cargo terminal that is expected to abound the local economy in the next decade.[34]

Geography [edit]

Rocky Mountain is located in northeastern North Carolina, at the autumn line between the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the east and the Piedmont region to the due west. The city is 58 miles (93 km) eastward of Raleigh, the state capital, 91 miles (146 km) northeast of Fayetteville, 144 miles (232 km) north of Wilmington, 19 miles (31 km) north of Wilson, 42 miles (68 km) south of Roanoke Rapids, and 127 miles (204 km) s of Richmond, Virginia.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 104.9 square miles (271.eight km2), of which 104.6 square miles (270.viii km2) is land and 0.four square miles (1.0 km2), or 0.35%, is covered past water.[35] The Tar River passes through the city from w to eastward, crossing the fall line at Upper Falls and Fiddling Falls and descending 25 feet (7.6 one thousand) within the city limits. The city boundaries straddle the line between Edgecombe and Nash counties, which follows the railroad tracks through the heart of the city running north to south.

Neighborhoods [edit]

Historic Rocky Mount Mills Village [edit]

Situated well-nigh the Tar River, the Rocky Mount Mills Hamlet grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a modest community of tenants working for the manufacturing plant. Built betwixt 1885 and 1940, each habitation is recognized past the National Register of Historic Places.[36] Changes in industrialization somewhen forced the closing of the mill, and this way of life came to an finish. However, when the mill closed, the property remained intact. Though the property has been a rental for its entire beingness, covenants are placed on the property to assure dwelling ownership and possessor occupancy and protect the historical integrity.[37]

Climate [edit]

Rocky Mount has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by cool, sometimes moderately cold winters, and hot, humid summers.[38] The average high temperatures range from 51 °F (xi °C) in the winter to around xc °F (32 °C) in the summertime. The average low temperatures range from 31 °F (−i °C) in the winter to effectually 69 °F (21 °C) in the summertime.[39]

Climate data for Rocky Mountain, N Carolina (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1954–present)
Calendar month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep October Nov Dec Year
Record loftier °F (°C) 78
(26) 		82
(28) 		89
(32) 		96
(36) 		98
(37) 		106
(41) 		105
(41) 		103
(39) 		102
(39) 		101
(38) 		86
(30) 		fourscore
(27) 		106
(41)
Average loftier °F (°C) 50.3
(10.ii) 		53.half-dozen
(12.0) 		threescore.9
(sixteen.1) 		71.two
(21.8) 		78.0
(25.six) 		85.3
(29.6) 		88.four
(31.3) 		85.3
(29.half dozen) 		81.iii
(27.4) 		72.ii
(22.3) 		64.vii
(18.two) 		55.0
(12.8) 		70.5
(21.four)
Daily mean °F (°C) 40.5
(iv.7) 		42.6
(5.9) 		49.five
(9.7) 		59.3
(15.ii) 		67.5
(19.seven) 		75.4
(24.1) 		78.9
(26.1) 		76.three
(24.6) 		71.7
(22.ane) 		61.0
(16.ane) 		51.7
(10.9) 		44.3
(6.8) 		59.9
(15.5)
Boilerplate depression °F (°C) 30.6
(−0.viii) 		31.7
(−0.2) 		38.1
(3.iv) 		47.three
(eight.5) 		57.0
(13.nine) 		65.4
(18.6) 		69.3
(twenty.7) 		67.four
(nineteen.vii) 		62.2
(16.8) 		49.7
(ix.8) 		38.8
(3.8) 		33.7
(0.9) 		49.three
(9.vi)
Record low °F (°C) −8
(−22) 		4
(−xvi) 		11
(−12) 		25
(−iv) 		32
(0) 		43
(6) 		51
(11) 		45
(7) 		37
(3) 		xix
(−7) 		16
(−ix) 		0
(−18) 		−8
(−22)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 3.22
(82) 		3.00
(76) 		3.85
(98) 		three.54
(90) 		three.63
(92) 		4.81
(122) 		5.x
(130) 		5.28
(134) 		six.fifteen
(156) 		3.55
(90) 		iii.20
(81) 		iii.23
(82) 		48.56
(1,233)
Average snowfall inches (cm) ane.9
(4.8) 		0.iii
(0.76) 		0.2
(0.51) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.4
(1.0) 		2.eight
(7.1)
Boilerplate precipitation days (≥ 0.0 in) eight.1 7.2 8.ii 7.7 8.3 9.one 9.8 8.6 seven.vii 6.1 half dozen.5 vii.8 95.1
Average snowy days (≥ 0.ane in) 0.5 0.one 0.ane 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.ane 0.eight
Source one: NOAA[40] [41]
Source 2: Weather condition.com[39]

Demographics [edit]

Historical population
Census Popular. %±
1870 357 —
1880 552 54.6%
1890 816 47.8%
1900 2,937 259.9%
1910 8,051 174.1%
1920 12,742 58.3%
1930 21,412 68.0%
1940 25,568 19.4%
1950 27,697 eight.3%
1960 32,147 16.1%
1970 34,284 half dozen.6%
1980 41,283 xx.4%
1990 48,997 18.7%
2000 55,893 14.i%
2010 57,477 ii.8%
2020 (est.) 54,341 [42] −5.v%
U.S. Decennial Census[43]
2018 estimate[35]

2020 census [edit]

Rocky Mountain racial composition[42]
Race Number Percentage
White (non-Hispanic) xiv,470 26.63%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 34,426 63.35%
Native American 298 0.55%
Asian 757 i.39%
Pacific Islander 26 0.05%
Other/Mixed 1,692 3.xi%
Hispanic or Latino ii,672 four.92%

Equally of the 2020 Usa demography, there were 54,341 people, 22,260 households, and 14,334 families residing in the city.

2010 demography [edit]

As of the census of 2010, 57,477 people, 23,097 households, and 14,639 families resided in the city. The population density was 1,312.half-dozen inhabitants per square mile (606.7/km2). The city had 26,953 housing units. The racial makeup of the metropolis was 61.3% African American, 32.iv% White, 0.6% Native American, one.0% Asian, and 1.6% from 2 or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of whatever race were 3.vii% of the population.

Of the 23,097 households, 27.iii% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.seven% were married couples living together, 22.9% had a female householder with no hubby present, and 36.6% were not families. About 31.iv% of all households were made upward of individuals living alone, and 26.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was three.04.

In the metropolis, the population was distributed as 27.v% betwixt the ages of i and 19, six.4% from 20 to 24, 24% from 25 to 44, 27.nine% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median historic period is 38.7 years. 45.viii% of the population are males compared to 54.2% for females.

The median income for a household in the city was $37,059, and for a family unit was $39,929. The per capita income for the metropolis was $21,779. About 19.0% of the population is below the poverty line.[35]

Faith [edit]

Rocky Mount'south population is 40.iii% religiously affiliated, beneath the state average of 48.9%.[44] Christianity is the largest religion, with Baptists (13.3%) making up the largest religious group, followed past Pentecostals (4.5%) and Methodists (iii.five%). Presbyterians (1.5%), Episcopalians (0.ix%), and Catholics (0.8%) make up a significant amount of the Christian population likewise. The remaining Christian population (15.2%) is affiliated with other churches. Islam (0.five%) is the second largest organized religion after Christianity.[45]

Economy [edit]

The economy of the Rocky Mount metropolitan area, historically been dependent on textiles and agronomics, has diversified into pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. Located near the juncture of a number of highways and railway, distribution and logistics are of import to local business. The expanse has a strong service sector and a number of financial and customer support centers are located hither.[nine] [10]

Rocky Mount'south is located 45 mi (72 km) from the state uppercase Raleigh and the Research Triangle located in that location. This has helped attract new companies to Rocky Mountain seeking a skilled labor and a lower costs of living and doing business.[nine]

The metropolitan area was named in a 2020 report as the tertiary-highest in the United States where manufacturing is thriving with a manufacturing output of $vi.ii billion, or $42,270 per capita. Between 2014 and 2018, manufacturing grew in the Rocky Mount area by 11.8%, and at that place were 108% more than manufacturing jobs than the national average.[46] [47]

In 2019, CSX Transportation began structure of a $200 million cargo final in Rocky Mount.[48] [34]

Largest employers [edit]

Below is a list of some of the largest employers in the metropolitan expanse equally of 2018.[49]

# Employer No. of employees
1 Pfizer 3,000+[50]
ii Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools 2,275
3 Cummins–Rocky Mount Engine Plant i,800
four Nash UNC Health Care 1,600
5 Edgecombe County Public Schools i,100
6 QVC Distribution heart 1,100
7 CenturyLink ane,000
8 Sara Lee Frozen Baker 950
nine Alorica 885
10 Urban center of Rocky Mountain 850

Shopping [edit]

Rocky Mountain is the regional shopping destination with many big-box retailers and specialty shops located in the city. Rocky Mountain'due south shopping centers are generally congregated forth and effectually US 301 (Wesleyan Boulevard). Large centers include Aureate E Crossing, Englewood Square, Sutters Creek Plaza, Cobb Corners, and Westridge Shopping Eye.[ commendation needed ]

In the downtown, the Douglas Block is a commercial expanse that was a former African American business district.[51] Station Foursquare is a shopping surface area located next to urban center hall and the train station.[52]

Arts and culture [edit]

The city is home to multiple venues for the performing arts. The Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences hosts the Maria V. Howard Arts Eye, a Children'due south Museum and Scientific discipline Centre, and a community theater.[53] The Dunn Center for the Performing Arts at Wesleyan College regularly has college arts performances and touring acts, and is also the dwelling house of the Tar River Orchestra and Chorus.[54] [55] Most recently, the Rocky Mountain Event Center opened in downtown with space to hold up to 5,000 seats for entertainment and sporting events.[56]

Rocky Mount Mills is a craft brewery incubator, the first of its kind on Due north Carolina, that is at present home to many up-and-coming breweries and restaurants. In add-on, the manufactory hosts summer music festivals and other events throughout the year. It has been in the process of redevelopment since 2014 by Capitol Broadcasting Company, which also owns the popular American Tobacco campus in downtown Durham, Northward Carolina. Nearby are dozens of historical homes for hire in the Rocky Mount Mills Hamlet.[57] [58] The adjacent stage of development is Goat Island on the Tar River, which will offer public access to hiking trails, sandy beaches, and rafting/boating.[ten]

A Rocky Mount Railroad Museum has been in the planning stages for a number of years given the cultural significance of the railroad on the city—in the early to mid-1900s the Emerson Shops alone of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad employed over 2,000 people—but is currently without a facility.[26] [59] [60] It has been proposed to be located within the train station.[61]

National Register of Historic Places [edit]

The Bellamy-Philips House, Bellemonte, Benvenue, Edgemont Historic Commune, Falls Road Historic Commune, Lincoln Park Celebrated District, Machaven, The Meadows, Rocky Mount Central City Celebrated District, Rocky Mountain Electric Power Establish, Rocky Mount Mills, Rocky Mount Mills Village Historic District, Stonewall, Villa Place Historic District, and West Oasis Historic District are listed on the National Annals of Historic Places.[62]

Parks and recreation [edit]

Rocky Mount is a major center for youth traveling sports equally a midpoint between New York and Florida along I-95.[63] The Rocky Mount Sports Complex, maintained by the Parks and Recreation department, includes seven outdoor baseball fields, four softball fields, eight soccer fields, a professional person disc golf course, basketball courts, and volleyball courts. The complex sees many statewide and interstate baseball game and soccer tournaments. It too has a football stadium dwelling house to the NCWC Battling Bishops football team and Elizabeth Urban center State Academy'south annual Downwards E Viking Archetype.[64] The Rocky Mountain Issue Center administered by the city has added eight indoor basketball courts, xvi volleyball courts, a ropes class, a climbing wall, and a family entertainment heart, with plans to host indoor basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics competitions.[63] [65]

Tar River Trail is a 7-mile (11 km) greenway running e to west forth the namesake river that connects with multiple parks, city landmarks, and the sports complex, with designated boat ramps for recreational paddling trips on the river. Notable amid the connected parks is City Lake Park, built in 1937 during the Great Depression past the Works Progress Administration, and the 57-acre (23 ha) biodiverse Boxing Park centered on the falls of the Tar River.[66] [67] The trail likewise includes a 220-foot (67 m) long articulate-span wooden bridge believed to exist the longest such wooden span in the United States.[68]

Regime [edit]

The city of Rocky Mount has a council-manager form of government. The metropolis is divided into seven wards with a full of seven council members elected to the city quango, one from each ward. Members of the city council serve four-year terms with staggered elections every two years, while the mayor is elected at-big by citizens and serves a four-year term. The mayor is ex officio chair of the city quango and but votes in case of a tie. The council appoints a city manager to serve as chief administrative officer of 24-hour interval-to-day affairs of government. As of 2022, the current city manager is Peter Varney.[69] Since the urban center straddles the Nash Canton-Edgecombe County border, the commissions of both counties are too involved in governance of the city.[70]

Metropolis quango [edit]

  • Sandy Roberson (Mayor)
  • Andre Knight (Ward 1)
  • Reuben C. Blackwell, IV (Ward 2)
  • Richard Joyner (Ward iii)
  • T. J. Walker (Ward 4)
  • Lige Daughtridge (Ward v)
  • West. B. Bullock (Ward six)
  • Chris Carroll Miller (Ward vii)

Teaching [edit]

North Carolina Wesleyan College is a four-yr private liberal arts college located in Rocky Mount and dwelling house to the Eastern North Carolina Heart for Business concern and Entrepreneurship. The center's programs are free, open to the public, and focusing on business concern development, entrepreneurship, and community date.[71] The city is also served by Nash Community Higher, which has a brewing, distillation, and fermentation programme in partnership with the Mills, and Edgecombe Customs College, which has a downtown campus specializing in biotechnology and medical simulation.[72] [73] Shaw University's College of Adult and Professional Education, or C.A.P.Eastward., program also has a satellite campus in the Mills Village.[74]

The metropolis of Rocky Mount is primarily served by the Nash-Rocky Mount Public School Arrangement, which as a whole has 15,000 students in 28 schools.[75] Parts of the city in Edgecombe Canton are also served by the Edgecombe County Public Schools system.[76] Public high schools include Nash Central Loftier Schoolhouse, Northern Nash Loftier School, Rocky Mount High School, Southwest Edgecombe High School and Southern Nash High School. The two nontraditional public schools are Tar River Academy and Nash Rocky Mount Early College. The one local lease school is Rocky Mount Preparatory School. There are too a number of private schools in the area.

Braswell Memorial Library serves the community equally its major public library with affiliated libraries throughout the Twin Counties. It recently became part of the Land Library's NC Key consortium of public libraries that share an integrated system allowing books and other materials to be checked out from other libraries across the state.[77] [78]

Media [edit]

Rocky Mount is considered part of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville goggle box and radio media marketplace, the 25th largest in the United States. However, multiple broadcast stations in the Greenville-New Bern-Washington market place also encompass the city.

Locally, WHIG-Television, founded in 1997 and currently hosted out of Wesleyan College, and WNCR-LD, founded in 2002 and located in downtown, are Rocky Mount's customs television stations.[79] [eighty] [81] WRQM ninety.nine FM is the repeater station of public radio station WUNC, the local NPR affiliate. In the 1990s, information technology was known as "Downwards East Radio" and also hosted out of Wesleyan College.[82]

The Rocky Mount Telegram serves as the primary daily paper for the city of Rocky Mount and surrounding areas.[83]

Infrastructure [edit]

Transportation [edit]

Roads and highways [edit]

United states 64 is the urban center's principal east–westward corridor

The urban center is served by 3 major highways:

In the downtown area, both United states 64 Omnibus. (Dusk Artery / Thomas Street) and Us 301 Bus. (Church Street) serve equally major thoroughfares. Land highways NC four, NC 43, NC 48 and NC 97 serve the city past connecting to nearby towns.

Airports [edit]

The Rocky Mount–Wilson Regional Airport (IATA: RWI, ICAO: KRWI, FAA LID: RWI) serves the general aviation needs of the surrounding counties. It is on NC 97, 9 miles (xiv km) southwest of downtown Rocky Mount. The closest aerodrome with scheduled commercial service is Pitt–Greenville Airdrome (PGV), 40 miles (64 km) to the southeast. Cargo and charter flights in the area as well use the Kinston Regional Jetport (ISO), fifty miles (80 km) to the s. Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), is 74 miles (119 km) to the west.

Rail [edit]

Amtrak provides three north and three southbound trains per twenty-four hour period at the Rocky Mount station located in downtown. Service is to Washington, D.C., New York City, Miami and Philadelphia. Freight service is provided by CSX. Trains travel to destinations in eastern Due north Carolina and likewise to points west and due south of the urban center.

Public transit [edit]

Tar River Transit provides public transportation in and around the metropolis of Rocky Mount, and operates ten fixed bus routes throughout the city.[84] [85]

Health care [edit]

Nash UNC Health Intendance is a nonprofit hospital affiliated with UNC Health Intendance, which it joined in 2014. It has 345 beds at four different locations. Its flagship facility is Nash General Hospital.[86] When Nash General opened in 1971, it consolidated four different hospitals in the Rocky Mount surface area, and was the first all-individual-room hospital in North Carolina.[87] Other hospitals operated are Nash Mean solar day Infirmary, Bryant T. Aldridge Rehabilitation Heart, and Littoral Plain Hospital. Nash UNC has added more facilities in contempo years: a Surgery Pavilion in 2004, a renovated Emergency Section and Nash Middle Heart in 2014, and Nash Women's Centre in 2016. In 2018, the Danny Talbott Cancer Center facility opened, named in laurels of a Rocky Mount athletic legend and cancer survivor.[86] [88] [89]

Notable people [edit]

  • Andrew B. Anderson Jr. – U.S. Air Force lieutenant full general and chief of staff born in Rocky Mount.[ninety]
  • J. J. Arrington – NFL football game player who attended Northern Nash High Schoolhouse in Rocky Mount.
  • Thurbert Baker – the kickoff African-American Chaser Full general in the Country of Georgia built-in in Rocky Mount.
  • Dr. Lloyd West. Bailey - faithless elector in the 1968 Presidential election[91]
  • F. C. Barnes – Gospel musician born in Rocky Mount.[92]
  • Luther Barnes – Gospel music producer born in Rocky Mount.[92]
  • Gardner Bishop – barber and civil rights activist born in Rocky Mountain.
  • Herman Boone – passenger vehicle depicted past Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans built-in in Rocky Mount.[7]
  • Benjamin Bunn – old U.S. congressman and commencement mayor of Rocky Mountain who lived in historic Benvenue.[93]
  • Jim Ballyhoo – NFL football histrion who won two Super Basin championships with the Pittsburgh Steelers born in Rocky Mount.[seven]
  • Roy Cooper – Governor of North Carolina who attended Northern Nash High School in Rocky Mountain.[94]
  • Jeff Collins – fellow member of the North Carolina General Assembly.[95]
  • Elijah L. Daughtridge – 12th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina born in Rocky Mount.
  • Harold Denton – nuclear physicist born in Rocky Mountain who advised the President during the Three Mile Island accident.[seven]
  • Harold Bascom Durham Jr. – recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam State of war.[96]
  • Mike Easley – former governor of North Carolina and state attorney general born in Rocky Mount.[94]
  • Phil Ford – UNC and NBA basketball player born in Rocky Mount.[97]
  • Jim Gardner – former U.S. congressman and lieutenant governor who cofounded Hardee'due south in the metropolis.[7]
  • Maureen Garrett – soap opera actress born in Rocky Mountain.
  • Alberta Gay – mother of Marvin Gaye born in Rocky Mount.[98]
  • Kaye Gibbons – novelist who attended Rocky Mountain Senior Loftier School and wrote Ellen Foster.[7]
  • Brian Goodwin – MLB baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • Baton Godwin – erstwhile head baseball double-decker for East Carolina University built-in in Rocky Mount.[94]
  • Allan Gurganus – author who wrote Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All built-in in Rocky Mount.[99]
  • Bill Harrison – former CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase born in Rocky Mount.[94]
  • Chuck Hinton – MLB baseball player born in Rocky Mount.[100]
  • Matt Hill – Electric dejection musician born in Rocky Mount.
  • Earle Hyman – player built-in in Rocky Mount who portrayed Cliff's father on The Cosby Evidence.[7] [101]
  • Terrence J – actor and co-anchor of E! News attended Northern Nash Loftier School in Rocky Mount.[102]
  • Jack Kerouac – male parent of the Beat Generation who resided with family off and on and referred to city as "Testament, Va." in On the Road.[103]
  • Kay Kyser – large band musician, radio and pic personality built-in in Rocky Mountain.[104]
  • Buck Leonard – Negro league baseball player; fellow member of the National Baseball game Hall of Fame.[105]
  • Westray Battle Long – second managing director of Women's Ground forces Corps under Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II born in Rocky Mountain.[106]
  • Mae Mercer – Blues vocalist, actress and producer born in annexed former town of Battleboro.
  • Thelonious Monk – Jazz pianist born in Rocky Mount.[107]
  • William Murray – former football game player and caput coach at Duke University born in Rocky Mount.[108]
  • Vann R. Newkirk Two – journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic born in Rocky Mount.[109]
  • Charles Pittman – NBA basketball player born in Rocky Mount.[110]
  • Chuck Robbins – CEO of Cisco Systems who attended Rocky Mount High Schoolhouse.[111]
  • Etaf Rum – New York Times best-selling writer of A Woman is No Man who lives in Rocky Mount.[112]
  • Susie Abrupt – first female North Carolina Supreme Court justice born in Rocky Mount.
  • The Swift – Christian pop band formed in Rocky Mount in the late 1990s.
  • Danny Talbott – UNC and NFL quarterback who led Rocky Mount Loftier School to land championships in football, basketball, and baseball.[88]
  • Ken Thompson – quondam CEO and chairman of Wachovia born in Rocky Mount.[94]
  • Jim Thorpe – Olympic gold medalist who played modest league baseball for the Rocky Mount Railroaders.[7]
  • Mike Tyson – MLB baseball player built-in in Rocky Mount.[113]
  • Phil Valentine – talk bear witness radio host who attended Northern Nash Loftier School in Stone Mount.[114]
  • Tim Valentine – quondam U.S. congressman built-in in Rocky Mount.[seven]
  • Harold Vick – Jazz musician known for his work in the pic School Daze (1988) built-in in Rocky Mountain.
  • Buck Williams – NBA basketball thespian built-in in Rocky Mountain.[115]
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Emmy Award winning actress born in Rocky Mountain.[116]
  • Adrian H. Wood – educator and blogger who was born and raised in Rocky Mount.[117]

See also [edit]

  • Rocky Mount Pines, a quondam minor-league baseball squad of the Carolina League.
  • List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations
  • Flag of North Carolina.svg North Carolina portal

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External links [edit]

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