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From its low lying bottom lands along the banks of the Roanoke to the hills and highlands of the northern portion, Halifax County abounds in opportunities awaiting development.

Though rich in historical interest, being the proud possessor of the site of the first state capital, where the first state constitution was written, and from the days of the Revolution until the time of the Reconstruction following the War Between the States, dotted with the homes and broad acres of the aristocracy of the old South, it has imbibed and grasped the spirit of modern progress until today it ranks among the first counties in the State in material wealth, school facilities, and good roads.

Traversed along its northern border by the waters of the mighty and noble Roanoke, an abundance of waterpower is available, which, while it has been developed to some extent and furnishes electric power to drive the wheels of industry in that bustling little city of Roanoke Rapids-Rosemary, where are located the largest damask mills in the world, and other mills that turn out the finished product produced from the cotton grown within sight of its looms, yet offers an opportunity for enormous future development.

Halifax County boasts of no large city, but in Littleton, Roanoke Rapids-Rosemary, Weldon, Halifax, Enfield, Hobgood and Scotland Neck it has progressive trading centers which provide every modern facility for marketing the products of the splendid farms which abound throughout the length and breadth of the county. Each of these towns, with the exception of two, provide employment for large numbers in their knitting mills and other mills manufacturing cotton products.

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