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Rocky Mount Telegram; Type: Daily newspaper: Owner(s) ... 1000 Hunter Hill Road, Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27804: Circulation: 6,519 (as of 2019) [2] ISSN: 1082 ...
In May 1961, Gardner, along with Joseph Leonard Rawls Jr., opened the first franchise store of the fast food restaurant Hardee's in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. [2] Later, in 1968, he bought the troubled Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association and after finishing their second season in the ABA, moved them to North Carolina a year later as the Carolina Cougars.
Wheeler recorded a couple of albums for Monitor Records, then from 1961 to 1962 he attended the Yale School of Drama, majoring in playwriting. [2] With Ewel Cornett, he co-wrote the musical Hatfields and McCoys , which has been performed annually since 1970 by Theatre West Virginia in the Grandview Cliffside Amphitheatre (part of the New River ...
James David Gailliard (born January 9, 1965) is an American pastor and politician. He is senior pastor and CEO of Word Tabernacle Church in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and a Democratic former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis (December 4, 1961 – October 4, 1978) was an American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare sclerotic bone disorder. The condition usually results in neurological disorders and death during childhood or teenage years. His life was the basis for the 1985 drama film Mask.
John Wheeler House is a historic home located in the Murfreesboro Historic District at Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1805, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Federal-style Flemish bond brick dwelling with a central passage plan. The front facade features a later two-story pedimented portico.
The district includes the buildings previously listed as Rocky Mount Mills and includes the Colonel Benjamin D. Battle House (1835). Other notable buildings include the mill village community house (1918) and a variety of one- and two-story frame mill worker houses. [2]
Wheeler suffered from several illnesses throughout his life and was in increasingly poor health during his later years. [3] He died at his home at 10:10 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, 1887. [19] The funeral was held at the Congregational church in Malone. [20] He was interred next to his wife in Malone's Morningside Cemetery on June 7, 1887. [21]