Tally Ho Township
Town in North Carolina, USA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tally Ho Township is in Granville County, North Carolina. It is near Stem, North Carolina. There is a Tall Ho Road and a Tally Ho Missionary Baptist Church and cemetery.[1]
The area was used by fox hunters and named for their rallying cry.[2] William Webb settled in the area in 1776.[3] Forlorn Hope Lodge was located in Tally Ho.[4] A post office was established in Tally Ho in 1830. It was relocated to Stem in 1889.[2]
Governor William Woods Holden received a petition from residents who experienced Ku Klux Klan violence.[5] Marion Post Wolcott took photographs of people living in the area during the Great Depression including African American tenant farmers eating after their white neighbors had finished.[6]
State representative T. G. Tilley's post office was in Tally Ho.[7][8] James Edwin Webb grew up in Tally Ho.[9] His father, John Frederick Webb Sr., was superintendent of the Granville County's segregated public schools.[10]
Enon Baptist Church was in Tally Ho.[11]
Luna Lee Ellis taught in Tally Ho's White School District #2.[12] Lizzie Cash Willifors also taught white students in the area.[13]