Smith River (Virginia)

Mebane's Bridge, also called Mebane's Folly and originally known as Fishing Creek Bridge, is a single-lane concrete Luten arch road bridge in Eden, North Carolina, United States which spans the Dan River. The bridge was built by the Luten Bridge Company of Knoxville, Tennessee in 1924 under contract by the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners near the confluence of the Dan River and Fishing Creek. The crossing was conceived by industrialist Benjamin Franklin Mebane Jr., who wanted the bridge to be built to connect the nearby towns of Spray and Draper to a tract of land he owned on the far side of the river where he sought to build a chemical plant. Mebane had also assisted in the election of three commissioners to support the plan. The cost of the bridge, its location in a remote area, and the nature of Mebane's influence on the commission created an intense political controversy in the county. Embroiled in the dispute and subject to membership disputes, the county commission declared that it would not honor the contract shortly after the Luten Bridge Company began work on the project. Urged on by Mebane, the company completed the bridge and later sued the county for breach of contract. The decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Rockingham County v. The Luten Bridge Co ruled that the bridge firm had a duty to mitigate damages after the county's breach, thus limiting the award it could collect. The case was later incorporated into many American contract law casebooks. With the road intended to link up the project incomplete, the bridge sat isolated over the Dan River for about a decade after its completion, occasionally being used by pedestrians. It was connected to dirt roads in 1935, which were paved in 1968, at which point the bridge was renamed Mebane's Bridge. It was closed to road traffic in 2003.

Dr. Franklin King House-Idlewild is a historic home located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1875, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, style frame dwelling with a 3+1⁄2-story tower. It combines elements of the Italianate, Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Leaksville-Spray Institute, also known as Leaksville-Spray Academy and Leaksville-Spray Intermediate School, was a historic school complex located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The complex consisted of the Administration Building, the Girls Home, both finished by 1905, and the classroom and auditorium building constructed in 1930. They were large two-story, Colonial Revival style brick buildings, with the Girls Home having some Queen Anne style design elements. The classroom and auditorium building connected the two other buildings. It has been demolished. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Leaksville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of the town of Eden. It includes buildings dated between about 1885 and 1939, and notable examples of Greek Revival, Classical Revival, and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include a house built about 1840, the Realty Building (1924-1925), Leaksville Mercantile Building (c. 1890), Carter-Moir Hardware/Smith-Lane Store (c. 1880), the Fagg-King Building (c. 1910), Mitchell's Drug Store (1936), DeHart Building (1938), and United States Post Office (1939) designed by architect Louis A. Simon and built as a Works Progress Administration project.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Bullard-Ray House is a historic home located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1830, and consists of a two-story, Greek Revival style main block with a recessed two-story wing. It was enlarged and remodeled between 1908 and 1915 in the Colonial Revival style. It has a hipped roof and features a broad, wrap-around porch supported by Doric order columns.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Dempsey-Reynolds-Taylor House is a historic home located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The original section dates to the early-19th century, and consists of a two-story, Federal style frame block with an attached 1+1⁄2-story brick section. It was enlarged by an Italianate / Queen Anne style main block added in the late-19th century. Later additions to the house occurred in the 1920s.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Boone Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 32 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a residential section of the town of Eden. It was developed from about 1895 to about 1935, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, American Foursquare, and I-house style architecture. Notable buildings include the Wade-Collins House (c. 1897), Willis-Huggins House, Austin House, Ray-McCallum House, McCollum-Truslow House, Clark House (1919), Knight House (1919), and Claude Jones House.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

First Baptist Church, previously known as Leaksville Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church located at 538 Greenwood Street in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1886, and is a Gothic Revival style brick church. It has a hipped roof with intersecting gables and Stick Style decoration in the gable ends. It features lancet windows and a wooden Gothic belfry with pointed steeple centered on the roof. Two Colonial Revival style additions were made to the church in 1934 and 1937.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Central Leaksville Historic District is a national historic district located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 67 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in a residential section of the town of Eden. It was developed from about 1815 to about 1935, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow style architecture. Notable buildings include the Rogers-Martin-Taylor House (c. 1815), Saunders-Hege House (c. 1850), Robinson-Dillard-Martin House (c. 1860), Lawson-Moir-Clayton House (c. 1842), Episcopal Church of the Epiphany (1844), J. M. Hopper House (1885), Norman-DeHart House (c. 1925), and Casteen House (c. 1920).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Mt. Sinai Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at 512 Henry Street in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story, Late Gothic Revival style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and it has tall gable front flanked by square two-stage crenellated bell towers incorporated at each corner. It features pointed arch tower windows and brightly colored stained glass. It is the oldest African-American Baptist Church in Eden.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Eden is a city in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is part of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Triad metro region. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,405. From the late nineteenth century through much of the 20th, the city was a center of textile mills and manufacturing. The city was incorporated in 1967 through the consolidation of three towns: Leaksville, Spray, and Draper.

Matrimony Creek is a stream in Rockingham County, North Carolina and Henry County, Virginia.An 18th-century bachelor named Matrimony Creek because he regarded the stream, like civil marriage, as "noisy, impetuous, and clamorous, though unsullied".This greenway stretches a little over a mile in each direction, winding through scenic groves of brush, some overhanging for cool shade from harsh summer sun. Towards its western edge, a rushing stream flows as a waterfall converges just below the Center Church street bridge.