Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Ramseur, NC

Ramseur is a town in Randolph County, North Carolina, built along the Deep River.

Ramseur's beginnings go back to about 1840, when Allen and Henry Kivett built a sawmill at a river settlement known as Allen's Fall, powered by the Deep River.

The Deep River Manufacturing Company was incorporated in March 1848, and by 1850 its brick cotton mill was operating with 14 looms, 400 spindles and six carding machines at a village that became known as Columbia.

In 1879 William H. Watkins bought the cotton mill, and on February 20, 1889 the community's name was officially changed to Ramseur in honor of Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur, the Confederate officer under whom Watkins had served; the town was incorporated in 1895.

The historic Deep River-Columbia Manufacturing Company mill complex in Ramseur, built between about 1850 and 1920, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1978; the mill itself had closed in 1962.

The railroad reached Ramseur in 1890, and the Columbia Manufacturing mill stood at the end of the rail line.

Ramseur's Leonard Park, which opened in 1985, offers tennis courts, ball fields, a playground, a picnic shelter and access to the Deep River.

The 2020 census counted 1,774 people in Ramseur, living in 638 households and 415 families, in a town covering about 1.7 square miles.