Domestic abuse cuts across all age groups and social classes. It happens to sailors as well as spouses; to men as well as women. Whenever an adult is placed in physical danger or controlled by threat or use of physical force by their spouse or intimate partner, she or he has been abused.
Salemburg is a town in Sampson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 469 at the 2000 census. Salemburg was the home of the former Southwood College. The North Carolina Justice Academy operates out of the former college. The academy, a training institution of the North Carolina Department of Justice, has a staff of 82.
Salem Baptist Church was organized on June 4, 1848 and relocated to present site in 1864. Salem Baptist Church became Salemburg Baptist Church around 1900. The present brick building was constructed in 1924. The first high school in Sampson County ( Salem Academy) was founded in Salemburg in 1874. The Town of Salemburg was founded in 1894 and incorporated February 21, 1905. The first post office was established in 1900. Salemburg was named the first Model Community in the USA in 1914.