Louisburg, North Carolina Louisburg, North Carolina Location of Louisburg, North Carolina Location of Louisburg, North Carolina State North Carolina County Franklin Louisburg is a town in Franklin County, North Carolina, in the United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Franklin County. The town is positioned about 29 miles northeast from the state's capital Raleigh, North Carolina, and positioned about 31 miles south from the Virginia border line.
It is also the home of Louisburg College, the earliest two-year coeducational college in the United States, and of one of the campuses of Vance-Granville Community College.
5.1 Franklin County Library 5.2 Franklin County Courthouse 5.5 Franklin County Schools 5.8 Louisburg College Louisburg was established in the 1770s and titled in honor of King Louis XVI of France, who was aiding the American Revolution at the time.
It is the place of birth of author Edwin Wiley Fuller, home of the International Whistlers Convention, and site of the last hanging in North Carolina, chronicled in the book The Day The Black Rain Fell, by William F.
"Black rain" actually did fall in Louisburg in March 1900. Louisburg was the home of one governor of North Carolina, Thomas W.
In June 1965, the small-town journal and airways broadcast publicized the names and addresses of black families who had applied to attend white schools in Franklin County.
When questioned on his actions, the man who read the names on the radio stated that though he was not a member of the Klan, he allowed of their activities. In part because of this disclosure, the families hoping to integrate the schools were attacked on various occasions by white extremists, who fired into the homes or finished the cars of families on the publicized list. The boss for integration persevered in the coming years, and so did violent opposition.
Summer of 1966 saw a series of cross burnings perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in Franklin County, including one in front of the County Board of Education in Louisburg. One small-town black prestige said in 1968, after gun shots were fired into his home, that his home had been firebombed on one occasion and nails left in his driveway no less than 20 times over the previous several years. Cascine, Cooke House, Dean Farm, Franklin County Training School-Riverside Union School, Fuller House, Green Hill House, Louisburg Historic District, Main Building, Louisburg College, Massenburg Plantation, Person Place, Portridge, Rose Hill, Patty Person Taylor House, Thomas and Lois Wheless House, and Williamson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Louisburg is positioned at 36 06 01 N 78 17 56 W (36.100413, -78.299009), on the banks of the Tar River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), all of it land.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 29.4% under the age of 20, 10.7% from 20 to 24, 15.8% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 21.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,345 housing units at an average density of 480.4 per square mile (184.2/km ).
Louisburg is governed by a mayor and six-member Town Council, who are propel in staggered four-year terms.
Franklin County Library The Main or Central library is the Franklin County Library positioned in Louisburg.
The branch libraries give citizens outside the governmental center of county easier access to the knowledge and materials they need.
Library cards are no-charge to Franklin County residents.
The card you will receive is valid at all Franklin County Branch Libraries including the Bookmobile.
Franklin County Courthouse Franklin County was formed in 1779 from Bute County.
Bute County was abolished in 1779, and the records were transferred to Warren and Franklin Counties.
The County is bordered by Warren County (northeast), Nash County (east), Wake County (southwest), Granville County (west), Vance County (northwest).
The act establishing the county authorized that the first court be held at the home of Benjamin Seawell.
Louisburg is the county seat.
The Louisburg Post Office is positioned on Main Street in the heart of Downtown Louisburg.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office has 44 full-time sworn Deputies and 8 part-time sworn Deputies.
Franklin County Schools The chief office buildings of Franklin County Schools are positioned at 53 West River Road, Louisburg NC 27549 (919-496-2600) in the former Franklin County Training School-Riverside Union School.
Franklin County Schools (FCS) consists of 15 schools and more than 8,500 students serving the suburbs of Franklinton, Louisburg, Youngsville and Bunn, North Carolina.
Of the 15 existing schools, there are eight elementary schools, three middle schools, three high schools and one alternative school.
The school precinct also consists of traditional and a year-round school which is positioned at Youngsville Elementary School.
For more knowledge on Franklin County Schools contact the web site at www.fcschools.net.
The department is positioned at 104 Wade Avenue in Louisburg.
A two-year residentiary college positioned in Louisburg, North Carolina, that focuses on getting students ready for the next step to a four-year school offering baccalaureate degrees.
Louisburg College has elected transfer agreements with many enhance and private universities and universities, including the 16 chapters of the University of North Carolina system, that allow Louisburg College graduates to make a seamless transition upon entering four-year schools as full-fledged juniors.
A improve college in North Carolina serving Vance, Granville, Franklin, and Warren counties.
The Franklin County Campus is positioned on N.
56 about one mile (2 km) west of Louisburg between Louisburg and Franklinton.
Louisburg, being positioned in easterly North Carolina, has long hot humid summers, and winters which are short and mild by comparison to much of the rest of the country, with snow being a rarity.
In Louisburg, between 60 and 90 days per year are over 86 F (30 C), as stated to the Heat Zone Map presented by the American Horticultural Society. By comparison, the great majority of the upper midwest and northeast has less than 30 such days per year. These hot days, combined with the South's high humidity, make it sweltering in the summer.
Climate data for Louisburg, North Carolina National Association of Counties.
"Franklin's Klan 'Burns' Over School Integration".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Town of Louisburg, Retrieved Oct.
WRAL TV Channel 5, Franklin County Election Results -- November 3, 2015, Retrieved Nov.
"Average Weather for Louisburg, NC".
Powell, The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, 1968, The University of North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1, Library of Congress Catalog Card #28-25916, page 301.
Official Town of Louisburg, NC Website Louisburg College Municipalities and communities of Franklin County, North Carolina, United States
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