On Saturday, March 22, 2025, history came alive as Patrick Henry’s Red Hill hosted “Liberty or Death:...
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During a dark point in American history, segregation in the rural South was the cause of vast...
March 8, 2025
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He sits on the floor in a corner of the Danville Museum. Not a real man, but...
December 11, 2024
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On Dec. 7, 1941, radios all over Person County were alerting Americans that they were under attack....
December 9, 2024
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When I was a child, World War II veterans were everywhere. They were in parades, at little...
November 25, 2024
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I first visited 629 North Main in Danville a few months before Covid put everything on pause....
August 23, 2024
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Making History History was made in Person County in 1992 when Mrs. Jean Andrews was elected as...
June 15, 2024
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Recently, the Person County Museum of History (PCMH) hosted a program entitled Tracing Our Roots: A Journey...
June 1, 2024
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If you ask anyone in Roxboro today where to go to enjoy a day on the lake,...
May 30, 2024
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A few years ago, we celebrated the 240th anniversary of The Crossing of the Dan, a major...
March 31, 2024
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My First Visit “The Holbrook Hotel is a beautiful home base for corporate and leisure travel to...
March 29, 2024
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For anyone who loves to read, loves to learn, and loves being part of an engaged and...
March 23, 2024
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It’s gone by numerous names over the past 100 years: Century Cotton Mills, New Century Cotton Mills,...
March 11, 2024
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“Walk through that door there and have a seat in my office, and I’ll be right...
December 3, 2023
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Psychologists have said that one of the most common dreams people have is about flying. There is...
Making History Personal – The R.P. Brooks General Store at the Person County Museum of History

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December 1, 2023
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a general store as “a retail store located usually in a small or...
October 4, 2023
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Many people know Gerald Roxbury as the vice president of the South Boston-Halifax Museum of Fine Arts...
October 2, 2023
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“Tom is just an amazing person and hard to sum up briefly! He loves people, pretty much...
September 26, 2023
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The kitchen didn’t have a door. In fact, it had been removed some time ago, as part...
September 20, 2023
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The Danville area has for years (I am not allowed to say how many) enjoyed the on-air...