Purley, North Carolina

Purley is an unincorporated community in Caswell County, North Carolina, United States, which, along with the communities of Blanch and Providence, makes up Dan River Township.

On a farm in this area, a process for curing brightleaf tobacco was discovered by an enslaved man named Stephen in 1839 and was improved in the 1850s.

Tradition relates that the name "Purley" came from the Samuel Satterwhite Harrison House that sat on a hill and was painted a "pearly white" when such a paint scheme was a novelty. This resulted in much comment, and the area eventually was named "Purley."

Today, Pleasant’s Store remains a notable community landmark, having been operated by the Pleasant family since 1914.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.