Eden is a city in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is part of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Triad region. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,405. From the late nineteenth century through much of the 20th, the city was a center of textile mills and manufacturing. The city was incorporated in 1967 through the consolidation of three towns: Leaksville, Spray, and Draper.
Leaksville Commercial Historic District
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Leaksville (now Eden) station of Danville and Western Railroad, 1912
Smith River
Rockingham County, North Carolina
Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,096. Its county seat is Wentworth. The county is known as "North Carolina's North Star".
Rockingham County Courthouse in Wentworth
William Byrd II surveyed the eventual county and dubbed the area the "Land of Eden".
Morehead Mill in Spray, c. 1911
American Tobacco Company plant in Reidsville c. 1937