Stoneville

History

Settlers came to the ridge between the Mayo and Dan rivers in the northwest Piedmont region in the early 1800s. In 1827, the Deep Springs Plantation was built for James Madison Scales and his wife Elizabeth Lesuer in what is now Stoneville. In 1843, the R. H. Lewis Tobacco company was established in the south side of the land that became Stoneville. In the late 1850s, brothers Thomas and Pinkney Stone bought land in the area. On March 5, 1877, the town was officially incorporated. A natural stop on the Norfolk-Western rail line, Stoneville became the trade hub for the surrounding localities and profited off of tobacco, cotton and grist-milling industries. On March 20, 1998, Stoneville was struck by an F3 tornado. It caused severe damage to commercial structures in the town's main business district along Henry Street, destroyed the railway depot, and killed one person in town, an elementary school teacher and dancer named Beth Mitchell, and one person southwest of the town, Powell Hickman. The town later built Friendship Park and painted a mural at the site of a destroyed store to commemorate Mitchell and Hickman.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of , all of it land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• John M Morehead High
  High · Eden · 814 students · 16.6:1 ratio
• Dalton McMichael High
  High · Mayodan · 723 students · 17.6:1 ratio
• J E Holmes Middle
  Middle · Eden · 627 students · 16.9:1 ratio
• Western Rockingham Middle
  Middle · Madison · 556 students · 14.6:1 ratio
• Stoneville Elementary
  Elementary · Stoneville · 425 students · 13.7:1 ratio
• Leaksville-Spray Elementary
  Elementary · Eden · 404 students · 12.6:1 ratio
• Huntsville Elementary
  Elementary · Madison · 402 students · 13.9:1 ratio
• Douglass Elementary
  Elementary · Eden · 363 students · 16.5:1 ratio