NC Gazetteer

Ramseur

Also known as: Allen's Fall, Columbia
A town in Randolph County
… town in E Randolph County on Deep River. Known as Allen's Fall prior to 1878; named Columbia after 1878, when Deep River Mills est. Inc. 1895 as Ramseur in honor of Stephen D. Ramseur (1837-64), Confederate major general with whom William H. Watkins, one of the local mill owners, had been associated during the Civil War. Alt. 442.