Randolph County, North Carolina

Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 11 Randolph County towns.

The oldest is Asheboro, established 1796. The largest by population is High Point (114,059).

Town	Established	Population
Archdale	1874	11,907
Asheboro	1796	27,156
Franklinville	1847	1,197
High Point	–	114,059
Liberty	1889	2,655
Ramseur	1895	1,774
Randleman	1880	–
Seagrove	1913	235
Staley	1901	397
Thomasville	1857	27,183
Trinity	1869	7,006

About these towns

Archdale: Archdale, previously known as Bush Hill, began as a predominantly Quaker settlement and received the name "Archdale" as a tribute to John Archdale, a lord proprietor and an early Quaker governor.

Asheboro: Asheboro was named after Samuel Ashe, the ninth governor of North Carolina (1795–1798), and became the county seat of Randolph County in 1796.

High Point: High Point was at the highest point of the 1856 North Carolina Railroad between Charlotte and Goldsboro, where it intersected the 1852 Great Western Plank Road.

Liberty: Originally named Liberty Oak, the town was founded in 1809 near the plantation of John Leak. The first church within the town was the Liberty Christian Church (now the United Church of Christ) founded on October 11, 1884.

Randleman: It is the home of NASCAR's Petty family, the Victory Junction Gang Camp and was the location of the Richard Petty Museum from 2003 to 2014.

Seagrove: Seagrove was named for Edwin G. Seagraves, a railroad official who was responsible for routing a railroad through the area. According to local sources, after a unanimous decision to name the station after Seagraves, the town name resulted from a sign painter running out of space and simply dropping the 's' from the end of the name.

Staley: Among the earliest settlers here was Jacob Leyenberger, aka Lineberry, said to be the first and only of the line of this family in America, born in the Harz Mountains of Northern Germany (Braunschweig), who arrived in Philadelphia on the Ship Robert and Alice from Dublin via Rotterdam, on September 3, 1739.

Thomasville: John Warwick Thomas was born June 27, 1800, and by age 22 owned 384 acres (155 ha) in the Cedar Lodge area after marrying Mary Lambeth, daughter of Moses Lambeth.

Trinity: The community was named after Trinity College, which later became Duke University. Trinity College started as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school founded in 1838.