title: Tillery, North Carolina
text: # Tillery, North Carolina
  
  Tillery is an unincorporated community in Halifax County, North Carolina, that was a plantation and is now home to a museum. Tillery was incorporated as a town in 1889. Franklin Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration instituted a New Deal era resettlement program in the area. In 1936 it was renamed Roanoke Farms. The ZIP Code for Tillery is 27887.
  
  ## History
  
  W. H. Randolph was its first mayor.
  
  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.
  
  The Hermitage is a historic plantation house in Tillery.
  
  James M. Pittman served as Tillery's postmaster.
  
  Roanoke River Correctional Institution, formerly Caledonia Correctional, is in Tillery.
  
  