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Henry E. Frye is an American judge and politician who served as the first African-American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Frye c. 1973
Richmond County is a county located on the central southern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its county seat is Rockingham. The county was formed in 1779 from a portion of Anson County and named in honor of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,946.
Richmond County Courthouse in Rockingham
The Great Falls Cotton Mill was built in 1869.
Hamlet (pictured in 1912) developed as a railway town in the early 1900s.
A 1991 fire at the Imperial Food Products plant (pictured) in Hamlet led to 25 deaths and a record fine from state regulators.