Northampton County NcArchives Photo Place.....Boon's Mill Historical Marker 
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Historical Marker E 64

Boon's Mill

Here on July 28, 1863, a Confederate force repulsed a Union march on the 
vital Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Breastworks 50 yds. S.W.

[Originally chartered in 1835 as the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, 
the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad name began use in 1855. At the time 
of its 1840 completion, the line was the longest railroad in the world 
with 161.5 miles of track. The railroad played a key role in the 
Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War - Marker is located on 
Hwy 158 east of Jackson]


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