Roxboro, Quebec, now part of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Due to the extensive civil unrest of the period following the Act of Union in 1801 and the Napoleonic Wars, many police barracks were constructed in the region and one was built at Power's Cross in Roxborough in the 1830s.
The first NC 144 was established in 1921 as an original state highway, running from NC 14 (now NC 86), in Prospect Hill, to NC 13, in Roxboro.