Halifax, NC

Halifax is a town in and the county seat of Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 170 residents. Halifax is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area. Halifax was established in 1757. The short version is that Halifax carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Halifax: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Halifax was named for George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, President of the Board of Trade from 1748 to 1761. Halifax is located on the Roanoke River, near the Fall Line between the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions of North Carolina. This location near the head of navigation for the Roanoke, was important in the town's early development.