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Tally Ho Township

Coordinates: 36°14′46″N 78°43′48″W / 36.246°N 78.730°W / 36.246; -78.730
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Corn shucking photo by Marion Post Wolcott

Tally Ho Township is in Granville County, North Carolina. It is near Stem, North Carolina. There is a Tall Ho Road and a Tally Ho Missionary Baptist Church and cemetery.[1]

The area was used by fox hunters and named for their rallying cry.[2] William Webb settled in the area in 1776.[3] Forlorn Hope Lodge was located in Tally Ho.[4] A post office was established in Tally Ho in 1830. It was relocated to Stem in 1889.[2]

Governor William Woods Holden received a petition from residents who experienced Ku Klux Klan violence.[5] Marion Post Wolcott took photographs of people living in the area during the Great Depression including African American tenant farmers eating after their white neighbors had finished.[6]

NASA administrator James E. Webb for whom the James Webb Space Telescope is named

State representative T. G. Tilley's post office was in Tally Ho.[7][8] James Edwin Webb grew up in Tally Ho.[9] His father, John Frederick Webb Sr., was superintendent of the Granville County's segregated public schools.[10]

Enon Baptist Church was in Tally Ho.[11]

Luna Lee Ellis taught in Tally Ho's White School District #2.[12] Lizzie Cash Willifors also taught white students in the area.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "434 TALLY HO MISSIONARY BAPTI Granville County North Carolina Cemeteries". cemeterycensus.com.
  2. ^ a b The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd ed: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History. Univ of North Carolina Press. 15 June 2010. ISBN 9780807898291.
  3. ^ Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Genealogical Publishing Com. 1981. ISBN 9780806309477.
  4. ^ "Granville County (N.C.) Miscellaneous Account Books, 1860-1892".
  5. ^ Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War. University of Georgia Press. 15 January 2020. ISBN 9780820356303.
  6. ^ "The Negro tenants and neighbors eating dinner after the white men have finished, on day of corn-shucking at Mrs. Fred Wilkins' home. Tallyho, Stem, Granville County, No. Car., Nov 1939". NYPL Digital Collections.
  7. ^ Carolina, North (December 30, 1889). "Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session". Observer Print. House – via Google Books.
  8. ^ United States Official Postal Guide. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1886.
  9. ^ Record, Anson (4 January 2022). "D.G. Martin | The famous man from Tally Ho | Anson Record".
  10. ^ "History of North Carolina: North Carolina biography, by special staff of writers". Lewis Publishing Company. December 30, 1919 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. UNC Press Books. August 2016. ISBN 9781469616995.
  12. ^ Carolina, North (1903). Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina.
  13. ^ Private Laws of the State of North-Carolina Passed by the General Assembly. J. Daniels. 1905.

36°14′46″N 78°43′48″W / 36.246°N 78.730°W / 36.246; -78.730