Tillery is an unincorporated community in Halifax County, North Carolina,[1] that was a plantation and is now home to a museum.[2] Tillery was incorporated as a town in 1889.[3] Franklin Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration instituted a New Deal era resettlement program in the area.[4] In 1936 it was renamed Roanoke Farms.[5] The ZIP Code for Tillery is 27887.[6]
W. H. Randolph was its first mayor.[3]
The Tillery Chapel Rosenwald Elementary School was a Rosenwald School established for the community. Tillery Chapel Elementary school also served the community until it closed in 1981. It became a community center.[7]
The Hermitage is a historic plantation house in Tillery.
James M. Pittman served as Tillery's postmaster.[8][9]
Roanoke River Correctional Institution, formerly Caledonia Correctional, is in Tillery.[10]