Tillery, North Carolina

Tillery is an unincorporated community in Halifax County, North Carolina,[1] that was a plantation and is now home to a museum.[2] Tillery was incorporated as a town in 1889.[3] Franklin Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration instituted a New Deal era resettlement program in the area.[4] In 1936 it was renamed Roanoke Farms.[5] The ZIP Code for Tillery is 27887.[6]

History

W. H. Randolph was its first mayor.[3]

The Tillery Chapel Rosenwald Elementary School was a Rosenwald School established for the community. Tillery Chapel Elementary school also served the community until it closed in 1981. It became a community center.[7]

The Hermitage is a historic plantation house in Tillery.

James M. Pittman served as Tillery's postmaster.[8][9]

Roanoke River Correctional Institution, formerly Caledonia Correctional, is in Tillery.[10]

Further reading
  • Tillery, North Carolina: One Hundred Years of Struggle in a Black Community by Cornelia Janke, History Honors Thesis, Duke University April, 1986

References
  1. "Tillery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  2. "The Tillery History House". www.visitnc.com.
  3. Carolina, North (November 20, 1889). "Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session". J. Turner, Jr. – via Google Books.
  4. "History House".
  5. "Hidden History: the Tillery Resettlement". ABG.
  6. "Tillery ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  7. "About CCT". Concerned Citizens of Tillery.
  8. Justesen, Benjamin R. (2005). "Black Tip, White Iceberg: Black Postmasters and the Rise of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1897-1901". The North Carolina Historical Review. 82 (2): 193–227. JSTOR 23523507 – via JSTOR.
  9. Commission, United States Civil Service (November 20, 1897). "Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  10. "Roanoke River Correctional Institution (formerly Caledonia Correctional) | NC DPS". www.ncdps.gov.


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