Randleman is a city in Randolph County in the state of North Carolina, United States, and located near High Point. At the time of the 2010 census, the population was 4,113 people. It is the home of NASCAR’s Petty family, as well as the Victory Junction Gang Camp, and it served as the site of the Richard Petty Museum from 2003 until 2014, among other things.
Dicks was initially called after Rick Dicks, a mill owner who established a mill in the area around 1830. As a result of the construction of a cotton mill in Dicks, the town was re-named Union Factory.
Randleman was the name that was chosen after that, in 1866. John B. Randleman, a mill owner, was the inspiration for the town’s name. Randleman Mills was the name given to the town when it was founded in 1880; the name was later changed to Randleman.
According to the Town of Randleman website, Randleman was named after John Banner Randleman in 1880, and the town was established in his honor “In 1880, the General Assembly in Raleigh granted the City of Randleman, which was named after John Banner Randleman, the official document of incorporation. When the town of Randleman Mills was established and formally recognized as a municipality. John H. Ferree, James E. Walker, James O. Pickard, Romulus R. Ross, and Addison W. Vickery formed a body politic known as the Commissioners of the Town of Randleman Mills after the town’s founder, James E. Walker.”
The small town grew and prospered, eventually becoming the largest town in Randolph County by 1890. The arrival of the High Point, Randleman, Asheboro, and Southern Train in 1889 had considerably aided the town’s development because roads were in poor condition and the railroad ensured that freight would be handled more quickly in the township. The establishment of three further mills, Randleman Hosiery Mills, Plaidville Mills, and Marie Antoinette, Randleman Mills, occurred during this period. Randolph County’s first hosiery mill was established in the early 1900s.
The High Point, Randleman, Asheboro, and Southern Railroad was finished in July 1889, and it was the first railroad in North Carolina. Early on, the influence of this railroad was significant in the development of Randleman and other parts of Randolph County, particularly in the early days of the railroad’s existence.
The Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church, which was built in 1850, was the first church to be built in Randleman. St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church was established in 1855 as a Methodist Episcopal church. Naomi Methodist Church was established in 1833 in order to provide easy service to the residents who lived on the other side of town. These two churches combined in 1944 to form the First Methodist Church, which exists today. The Bank of Randleman was established in 1900 with Stanhope Bryant as its president, and it was subsequently merged with the Peoples Bank in 1910 to form the Peoples Bank.
As of September 5, 1961, the office was relocated from the old City Hall building to the first floor of the Lions Club building, which was located at a corner of the City Parking Lot.
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