Randolph County

Created in 1779, Randolph County is located in the center of North Carolina's Piedmont region. This concise volume traces the history of the county from its pre-colonial Native American habitation through European settlement in the eighteenth century, growing industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its establishment as a national tourist destination in the twenty-first century.

Lapsley Barron Mills Jr. hold a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He held positions at the Alamance News in Graham, N.C., and at the Winston-Salem Journal before becoming editor and publisher of the Randolph Guide in 1955. Although Mr. Mills sold the Randolph Publishing Company in 1991, he continues to write a weekly column for the Randolph Guide. He has been an active member of the Randolph County Historical Society since 1956.