Rocky Mount (Virginia)
Franklin County
Rocky Mount is a small town ( Town) and the administrative center ( County Seat) in Franklin County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The town with some 4,000 inhabitants, is located some 30 kilometers south of Roanoke.
About 15 kilometers northeast of Rocky Mount is the Booker T. Washington National Monument.
Personalities
- Nathaniel Claiborne (1777-1859), politician
- Virgil Goode ( born 1946 ), politician
- Jesse L. Martin ( b. 1969 ), actor
- Barry Ratcliffe (born 1962 ), actor
- Absalom Willis Robertson (1887-1971), politician
- Edward W. Saunders (1860-1921), politician