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| Steele-Fowlkes House 708 Fayetteville Road, Rockingham ca. 1895 |
| Robert L. Steele Jr. (1853-1926) was one of the county's leading textile manufacturers and the president of the Farmers Bank (later named Farmers Bank and Trust) from 1902 until his death. He had this two-story frame Victorian house built about 1895 when he moved his family to Rockingham from Roberdel. To read more about this historic site in Richmond County, please refer to the book, The Architectural History of Richmond County, North Carolina. |
| Bostick School. (James L. Reese II) |
| The decorative possibilities of late-nineteenth-century woodworking technology were displayed to full effect in the Steele-Fowlkes House, Rockingham. The wraparound porch and turreted balconies have since been removed. Courtesy of Hannah Stephens and Office of Archives & History. |