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Title
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Historic district, Elizabeth City, North Carolina
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Description
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Historic district, Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Elizabeth City, N.C. : Elizabeth City Area Chamber of Commerce, [19--?] [13] p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Cover title. National register of historic places.
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Coverage
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Elizabeth City, N.C.
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Date
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1900-1999 approx.
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Format
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PDF
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Identifier
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CSAOB-T-10
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Language
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English
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Rights
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Source
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Joyner NC Broadsides
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ECU Digital Collections
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Subject
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Elizabeth City (N.C) - Guidebooks
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Elizabeth City (N.C.) - Buildings, structures, etc, -- Guidebooks
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Pasquotank County (N.C.)
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Type
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Promotional
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Original Format
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Paper
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extracted text
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NORTH CAROLINA
LORE
“are county the vacationist may visit restored Fort
Ra.
gh, view the colorful historic pageant staged on the
site where the first white men settled in America, and
enjoy fine modern hotels, resting and exploring the
Carolina coast, all at very moderate cost.
Kill Devil Hill, where Orville and Wilbur Wright
made the first flight in a power driven airplane
December 17, 1903, is on the beach highway to
unoke
Island.
Here a national monument has been erected.
Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks is reached from
Eliz .eth City through Currituck, Kitty Hawk ana via
the Oregon Inlet ferry.
Cape Hatteras National Park
will extend from the Cape to include much of the Dare
County coast to the north.
The old lighthouse ct Hatteras has been preserved. One of the tallest in America,
it
served
for
many
years
to
guard
ships
from.
the
treacherous Diamond shoals, "Graveyard of the At
lantic.”
Thirty miles south of Elizabeth City on U. S. route 17
is Edenton where at St. Paul's Episcopal church, built
in 1736, are the graves of colonial governors Charles
Eden and Henderson Walker, a memorial to Joseph
Hewes, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and
the home
of James
Iredell, Justice of the U. S. Su.
me
Court from 1790-99 and Attorney General of North Carolina during the Revolution.
Also at Edenton is “Hayes”
home
of Samuel
Johnston,
revolutionary
nor and U. S. Senator.
The Albemarle Assembly,
in Carolina,
initial
first met in Pasquotank
leader,
law-making
County
gover-
body
in 16€ 3, and
the first known school in North Carolina was
Charles Griffin in this county from 1705-08.
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‘.dditional up to the minute information and more
specific market data chout both Elizabeth City and
Pasquotank County
ve furnished gladly iy the
Elizabeth City Ch
Commerce.
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SETTING
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FOR THE TOURIST—VACATIONIST
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
ELIZABETH CITY
SOME
Highway,
on
City,
Elizabeth
and
U.
S.
17,
the
Ocean
U. S. 158, the friendly central
PROGRESSIVE
or
Hiway
Atlantic
Coastal
point for ten north-eastern
North Carolina counties — and Pasquotank County welcome you to
a region rich in history and full of great promise for the future.
Elizabeth City has enjoyed a steady growth until today it is believed
its population, including suburbs immediately adjacent to the city limits,
approximates 15,000. In 1940, its population was 11,564 — in 1930, 10,037.
Unlike much of the South, which is dependent on tobacco or cotton,
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Pasquotank County is one of the richest truck growing sections on the
This diversified farming brings money to its farmers
Eastern seaboard.
This county ranks
all summer long — from early May to late October.
fourth among
the 100 North Carolina counties in value per farm.
Elizabeth City is the commercial and financial capital of the entire
section encircling the Albemarle sound, drawing a large volume of trade
from ten agricultural counties which produce 23% of all the fruits and
vegetables, 34% of all the corn and hogs, 38% of all the peanuts and
27% of all the soya beans grown in North Carolina.
Consequently Elizabeth City, although twenty-first in population, ranks
tenth in effective buying income among North Carolina cities, with
Pasquotank County's effective buying income per
$2,192 per family.
white family is $2,610 — not only exceeding the North Carolina state
average by almost a thousand dollars, but above the average for the
entire United States.
Elizabeth City is not an industrial center, yet it has an industrial
payroll of approximately $35,000 weekly from hosiery mills, textile plants,
lumber mills, ice plants, and furniture, candy, paper box, brick, basket °
and barrel factories and marine railways.
It has the most modern and progressive retail stores in the state with
new businesses being added monthly.
Justly proud too, is the city of its school system, with new plant equipment valued at nearly a million dollars and separate buildings for
Elizabeth City State Teachers’ College
primary, grade, and high schools.
(Negro) valued at over a million dollars is located in Elizabeth City.
Elizabeth City’s Coast Guard air station, built at a cost of millions of
dollars with hangars, barracks and landing fields on the shore of the
Pasquotank river, is the location of the Coast Guard Aviation Repair
and Supply Station and nearby is also the Naval Air Facility, previously
the U. S. Naval
Air Station
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PLEASANT
CITY—LOCATED
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Base).
The Albemarle Hospital with 100 beds, has recently been renovated
and enlarged with a new operating suite, a new obstetrics suite, new
X-ray equipment, sterilizing equipment, and an ideal kitchen with new
In addition,
refrigeration and new furniture at a total cost of $320,000.
a modern Medical Building and Medical Center are located downtown.
Elizabeth City is also headquarters for the District Health Department
housed by the Health Center, which was erected during the war at the
cost of approximately $60,000.
Churches of all major denominations are located in Elizabeth City.
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HIWAY
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Elizabeth City has two hotels with a total of 150
rooms where traditional Southern Hospitality is exemplified. The Virginia Dare Hotel is fireproof, the finest and
most modern in Eastern North Carolina.
Living conditions are good, with modern public
improvements, 25 miles of paved streets and 35 miles of
paved sidewalks in Elizabeth City, low city and county
tax rates, mayor-city manager and county board of commissioners form of government.
Electric light, power, water and sewer services are
municipally operated, with modern telephone and telegraph services and gas plant.
The average temperature is 60 degrees and the
average yearly rainfall is 45.5 inches in Elizabeth City
and Pasquotank County.
The Inland Waterway runs through Elizabeth City,
bringing much traffic through the town by way of the
Dismal Swamp canal and the Pasquotank River, Elizabeth City is also served by the main line of the Norfolk
& Southern railroad, is located on the line of the Norfolk & Southern Bus Corp., the line of the Virginia Dare
Transportation Co., and other truck lines and is also a
stop on the East-West route of the Capital Airlines—PCA.
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Lumber Plants—A Major Industry
"Virginia Dare Hotel
Eastern Carolina’s Finest
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Elizabeth City is the home of the Moth type sail boats,
and regattas are held here on the Pasquotank every
Its yacht basin, one of the largest between New
year.
York and Florida, attracts many luxurious craft which
stay over for weeks and months for overhauling, repairing
and
storage.
Currituck
Excellent fishing and hunting are nearby.
and Dare Counties, only a few miles away, are becom-
ing more popular each year for their wild fowl hunting
and deep sea fishing. Likewise Dare County's beaches
are
attracting
many
thousands
of tourists
and
vacation-
ists each summer.
Elizabeth City has a lighted athletic field, two race
tracks (one lighted), a golf course, five theatres and other
recreation facilities.
A War Memorial consisting of
stadium, parks, and playgrounds is also planned.
Bear and deer are found in the Dismal Swamp to the
north and in other localities close to Elizabeth City, and
these
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Dismal ‘Swamp Canal—
Wy
Part.of the Inland
get,
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woods
are
also
full of small
game.
Sixty-five miles southeast is Roanoke Island, site of
the first English settlements in the New World, in 1585-87
and the birthplace of Virginia Dare, first child born of
English parents in America, August 18, 1587.
View from Navy Blimp Hangar
Poe
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A Typical Catch of Channel Bass
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