The Grove, an antebellum Greek Revival estate, built by John Stafford Hale and his wife, Margaret Ingles Saunders Hale, great-granddaughter of Mary Draper Ingles [see Thom’s “Follow the River” for her story of capture by and escape from the Shawnee in 1755] , is open for tours, by appointment only. Confederate General Jubal A. Early’s law office is on the Read more...

Constructed in 1890, the former Reynold’s Restaurant, now known as Kay’s Corner, is one of the last remaining frame commercial buildings in Rocky Mount’s Central Business District. This historically important building functioned as a restaurant with apartments at the entrance to town at Route 40. It was probably the first commercial structure to be encountered when entering Rocky Mount from Read more...