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Original Building Was Burned:
The city was named for the mounds near its site. It grew from a settlement established in 1818 to operate the Rocky Mount Cotton Mills, built by Joel Battle, and still in operation. The original building was burned by Federal forces in 1863. It was rebuilt and again destroyed by fire of incendiary origin. The present building dates from 1871. The railroad was built through the town in 1848, and in 1867 Rocky Mount Depot, as it was called by the railroad, was incorporated as the town of Rocky Mount, with a population of 50 people. The State Industrial School for Boys is located here.Ships for the Confederacy. Far less favorable to the Union cause was the role of Englishmen in assisting the Confederate States to construct a navy. Since the South had no navy and no truly adequate means within its territory of building one, it planned to buy one in neutral countries, mainly Britain. The Confederacy made arrangements with British firms for the building of commerce destroyers, such as the Alabama. Along with the Florida, Shenandoah, and other cruisers, the Alabama burned and sank over 250 Union ships.
Colossus of Rhodes.—A popular name for ( statue of the Sun designed by Chares of Lind and erected overlooking the harbor of Rhodes, required 12 years to build (292-280 B.C.), but st vived only 56 years, being overthrown and brok to pieces by an earthquake in 224 B.C. The stat was upward of 105 feet tall. It is said that t fragments remained in situ for 896 years until Moslem general, in 672 A.D., sold them to a Jew Emesa. The famous tempi dedicated to Artemis at Ephesus, chief of the 1; Ionian cities in Asia Minor, was designed an< built by the architect Chersiphron in the 6th cen tury B.C., Croesus contributing to the building fund Burned down by Herostratus in 356 B.C., it wa; rebuilt by the joint efforts of all the Ionian states It was again destroyed when the Goths sacked the city in 262 A.D. Fragments of the columns of the original temple are in the British Museum.
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