Ruffin, North Carolina

[2] Neighboring communities and municipalities include Reidsville, Eden, Pelham, Casville, and Wentworth.

With the completion of the vital Piedmont Railroad by the Confederate Government in early 1864, the village of Ruffin experienced steady growth.

Instead the prosperity was to find a home in a smaller crossroads hamlet to the south by the name of Reidsville.

Tradition relates that growth in Ruffin was doomed because the large local landowners wanted to remain just that.

The community is named after Thomas Ruffin (1787–1870) an American jurist and Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1829 to 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859.