The area originally consisted of two adjacent villages, Rocky Mount and Mount Pleasant. The first court was held at Rocky Mount in 1786 following the American Revolutionary War. The first courthouse, made of logs, was replaced in 1831. By 1836 the town consisted of 30 homes and several businesses.
During her 66-year acting career, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars, but she never came to a ceremony to receive them. âAs for me, prizes are nothing,â she once said. âMy prize is my work.â Still, four best actress â or actor â awards is an unbeaten feat, akin to Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game.
He was 76. The oldest actor to be nominated for an Oscar was Gloria Stewart, who was 87 when she was nominated for her role as Old Rose in 1997's Titanic. The youngest person to ever receive an Oscar was 5-year-old Shirley Temple-in 1934. (However, Shirley's Oscar was an honorary one.). The youngest actress to win a standard Oscar was Tatum O'Neal, who was 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress award for Paper Moon in 1974. Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to win an Oscar, when he won for Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for his performance in Beginners, at age 82.