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
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.
R. W. Goodman
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Raymond Wallace Goodman was an American law enforcement officer and businessman who served as Sheriff of Richmond County, North Carolina from 1950 until 1994, making him the longest serving sheriff in
Goodman c. 1946
