Stoneville is a town in Rockingham County,

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, United States. Stoneville is part of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area of the

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History

Settlers came to the ridge between the

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rivers in the northwest

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region in the early 1800s. In 1827, the

Deep Springs Plantation Deep Springs Plantation is a plantation house in Stoneville, North Carolina. The farmland was later sold off to create the Deep Springs Country Club, a golf club and residential neighborhood, but the original house still exists as a private resid ...

was built for James Madison Scales and his wife Elizabeth Lesuer in what is now Stoneville. In 1843 the R.H. Lewis Tobacco company was established in the south side of the land that was to become the town of Stoneville. In the late 1850s, brothers Thomas and Pinkney Stone bought land in the area. On March 5, 1877, the town was officially incorporated. A natural stop on the Norfolk-Western rail line, Stoneville became the trade hub for the surrounding localities and profited off of tobacco, cotton and grist-milling industries. On March 20, 1998, Stoneville was struck by an F3 tornado. It caused severe damage to commercial structures in the town's main business district along Henry Street, destroyed the railway depot, and killed one person in the town. Several buildings in the downtown were completely removed, and most cleanup and repair work was done within a year. The town later built Friendship Park and painted a mural at the site of a destroyed store to commemorate the victim killed in the town and a farmer killed further west in the county.

Geography

Stoneville is located at (36.465836, -79.906342). According to the

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, the town has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the

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, there were 1,308 people, 474 households, and 374 families residing in the town.

2010 census

As of the

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of 2010, there were 1,056 people, 469 households, and 292 families residing in the town. The

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was 820.4 people per square mile (317.1/km). There were 518 housing units at an average density of 424.1 per square mile (163.9/km). The racial makeup of the town was 77.64%

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, 19.26%

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, 0.10%

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, 2.10% from

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, and 0.90% from two or more races.

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of any race were 3.59% of the population. There were 469 households, out of which 20.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.3% were

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living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.7% were non-families. 35.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.73. In the town, the population was spread out, with 20.0% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.0 males. The median income for a household in the town was $28,313, and the median income for a family was $39,375. Males had a median income of $26,167 versus $21,354 for females. The

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for the town was $17,255. About 8.2% of families and 12.7% of the population were below the

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, including 17.0% of those under age 18 and 20.9% of those age 65 or over.

Attractions

Mulberry Island Plantation Mulberry Island, also known as the Penn Farm, is a historic plantation house in Stoneville, North Carolina near the Dan River. The home was once the seat of the Scales family and the Settle family, two prominent North Carolinian political dynas ...

* Rockingham County NC Shiloh Airport

Notable people

Beth Mitchell Elizabeth Webster "Beth" Mitchell (October 7, 1972 – March 20, 1998) was an American educator and competitive shag dancer. In 1998 she won the National Shag Dance Championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Mitchell was killed during the 199 ...

(1972-1998), competitive shag dancer *

J.J. Webster James Jefferson Webster Sr. (September 27, 1898 – May 24, 1965) was an American businessman, farmer, and politician. He owned a dairy and tobacco farm, tobacco warehouses, a general store, and co-ran a car dealership in Rockingham County, Nort ...

(1898-1965) - farmer, businessman, politician * Jeff Webster (born 1966) - checkers champion *

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(born 1942) - checkers champion * T. Clarence Stone (1899–1969) - politician and businessman *

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(1909-1973) - lawyer and politician * Tabitha Brown (born 1979) - actress and social media personality

References

External links

The Madison Messenger, the area's community newspaper

Stoneville's devastating tornado of March 20, 1998
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