Robeson County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina and is its largest county by land area. Its county seat and largest community is Lumberton. The county was formed in
Robeson County Courthouse and Confederate Monument in Lumberton
The Lumber River as seen from the boat launch at Princess Ann near Orrum.
The first Croatan Normal School building in Pates
Farmers taking tobacco to market in Fairmont in the early 1900s
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The Lumbee, also known as People of the Dark Water, are a mixed-race people group of the Americas, some of whom comprise the federally recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Primarily located in R
Robeson County, North Carolina
…a connection to the Tuscarora people who had populated North Carolina in the 1700s—intending to secure a better chance at full federal recognition. Lumbee Indians fighting Ku Klux Klansmen during the Battle of Hayes Pond, 1958 In 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Board of…
Kelvin Sampson, a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Angus Chavis, a Confederate volunteer in North Carolina at the age of 15
Preston Locklear with Rosetta Brooks, photographed in 1908.
The Croatan Normal School in Pembroke, N.C.