Reidsville is a city in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. At the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 14,583. Reidsville is included in the Greensboro–High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Triad.

Reidsville was customary in the in front 19th century as an outpost and End on drama line that ran together with Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia, and was originally known as Wright’s Crossroads. The community grew from a single house and inn owned by the associates of Reuben Reid, a local farmer, businessman, justice of the good relations and daddy of David S. Reid), into a thriving farming community primarily supporting tobacco production and cigarette manufacturing. Reidsville was officially incorporated by the North Carolina State Legislature in 1873 and became a key location of the American Tobacco Company which employed large numbers of city and county residents. The American Tobacco Company was the mainstay of Reidsville economics until its sale and delay in 1994. Many textile mills were traditional in Reidsville as well, with Cone Mills and Burlington Industries, located in Burlington North Carolina, consolidating most of them in the mid-20th century, although most have now closed. Although Reidsville has experienced economic recession in recent years the community has enjoyed a renewal of growth as a sleeper city supplying a source of rural enhancement for the surrounding larger cities.

The roots of Reidsville date incite to the to the lead 19th century following William Wright of the Little Troublesome Creek area owned a tavern and store upon the road connecting Danville and Salem. This outpost, called Wright’s Crossroads, was the earliest harmony in the present-day city and was overseen by Wright’s son, Nathan, and next Nathan Wright’s son-in-law, Robert Payne Richardson. Richardson’s home, built in 1842 upon a knoll overlooking Little Troublesome Creek, still remains upon Richardson Drive and has the distinction of bodily the oldest standing home in the city.

Reuben Reid of the Hogan’s Creek Place moved his family, including wife, Elizabeth Williams Settle, and son, David Settle Reid, to a 700-acre (2.8 km) farm on the ridge in the midst of Wolf Island and Little Troublesome creeks in May 1814. Reuben Reid became a rich farmer, operated a accrual and a public inn maintained in a private home and served the county as a constable and justice of the peace. When the relatives secured a state office, aptly named Reidsville, in 1829, 16-year-old David Reid was appointed its first postmaster. He well ahead became a State Senator (1835–42), a U.S. Congressman (1843–47), Governor of North Carolina (1850) and a U.S. Senator (1854).