Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 9
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| Location | North Carolina |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Month | 7 |
| Date | 4 |
| Modern address | Halifax NC |
| City | Halifax |
| State | NC |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Raleigh Register, July 5, 1867 reports the Halifax baseball club will play a Petersburg Virginia baseball club at Halifax on July 4th.
Halifax NC (current pop. about 350) is about 80 miles NE of Raleigh and about 20 miles S of the VA border. Petersburg (1860 pop. about 18,000) is about 70 miles N of Halifax NC.
Sources
Raleigh Register, July 5, 1867
