An ancient lithic quarry, the Two Dogs Site, is located in present-day Person County, North Carolina.

[4] The Indigneous tribes encountered here by early Spanish explorers were generally Siouan-speaking, including the Saponi, Occaneechi, and other groups.

Settlement by immigrants of Scots, Scots-Irish, English, French Huguenot, and German ancestry began in the mid-17th and continued into the 19th centuries.

Due to Person County's nearness to Virginia, the Carolina coast, and the Appalachian foothills, a wide variety of Southern American English dialects can be heard here, including Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern, South Midland, and African-American English.

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Moore, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Hillsborough district, was another Revolutionary War hero, commanding the Person County militia at the disastrous Battle of Camden.

A granite monument at the Courthouse honors E. Fletcher Satterfield, who carried the Confederate flag at Gettysburg.

Long were key leaders who helped make a transition to a more diversified economic base after the Civil War.

The arrival of the newly constructed Norfolk and Western Railroad was a major influence around 1890, as it enabled the addition of tobacco processing plants and warehouses to the rural economy.

Long established Peoples Bank in 1891 and the Roxboro Cotton Mill in 1899, later known as Tultex Yarns.

His home at Roxboro, the James A. and Laura Thompson Long House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Baker Company opened here in 1923, making textile manufacturing a major contributor to the local economy for decades.

Baker was merged with Collins and Aikman Corporation (C&A), becoming a major industry in Person County for several decades before closing in August 2006.

Residential and commercial development have grown steadily over the past few years in part due to the county's location near the Research Triangle region.

The Hyco Lake area and southern portion of the county have had an influx of new home and commercial development in the late 20th and early 21st century.

[8] Person County contains parts of three major river basins: the Neuse, the Roanoke and the Tar, providing essential clean drinking water to the south and east of the state.

The area's ridges are not narrow and sharp like those in some parts of the Piedmont, and the gullies and ditches are not as abrupt.

Piedmont Triad International Airport, located 82 miles (132 km) southwest of Roxboro.

Elected officials in Person County (as of 2024):[18][19][20][21][22] The economy of Person County is dominated by electrical, textile, administrative, manufacturing, aerodynamics, viticulture, brokering, food processing, automotive, aluminum and paper products.

Person County is also near North Carolina's Research Triangle, home to numerous high-tech companies and enterprises.

Person County offers a strategic location for business and industry, as it is within an hour's drive of North Carolina's two major economic centers, the Research Triangle (Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh) and the Piedmont Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point), and within a two-hour drive of Richmond, Virginia.