Notable People
- Thomas Lanier Clingman, North Carolina Congressman, United States Senator and General of the Confederate States Army was born here.
- Richard Irving Dodge, United States Army officer and author.
- Rev. Peter Eaton, a Baptist minister and merchant. He was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1804.
- Richard Clauselle Puryear, a U.S. congressman 1853–1857.
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