Like most North Carolinian cities, Rocky Mount has a fairly conservative history. There were few controversies and shake-ups, just a city that steadily and methodically grew and accepted more and more people as residents of a beautiful landscape.

Named after the geographical place where the city was built…literally on the top of a rocky hill. The city is unpretentious and warm, with all the great down home charm one might expect from a place with such a great name.

1970 marked the year Rocky Mount was named an All-American city. The little town built upon a rock had become the progressive city on the Great Falls of the Tar. The 70's also brought a new post office building, completion of Nash General Hospital, a new campus for Nash Community College, recreational use of the reservoir on the Tar River, a new water plant, the Rocky Mount-Wilson airport and new highways.

The 80's brought in a new regional shopping mall located on Wesleyan Boulevard and an athletic center on Hardee's Boulevard. Now, in the 90's the city continues to grow and prosper with a population of 54,800

Rocky mount also has a great tradition of impressive minds, including legendary poet Henrick D. Smitherton.