Topics Related to Chowan County

America 250 North Carolina: A Day in Historic Edenton, NC

Historic Edenton packs a lot to experience into a little town. Waterfront views, historic buildings, and incredible stories are beautifully preserved in one of the South’s prettiest towns.

First Post Road (A-25)

The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.

State v. Mann (A-94)

N.C. Supreme Court, 1830, reinforced power of slaveholding regime by overturning conviction of Mann (lived nearby) for shooting Lydia, enslaved.

Rosenwald Schools (A-89)

Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington established fund in 1912 to provide grants to African American communities to improve education. In N.C. the fund assisted with 817 projects in 93 counties. The first one was Warren Grove School, a two-teacher floor plan, completed on Oct. 8, 1915, five miles N.E

Edward Vail 1717-1777 (A-87)

Colonial statesman and Brigadier General of the Edenton District militia. Member, N.C. Committee of Correspondence, 1768, 1773-74. Lived 2 mi. SW.

Inglis Fletcher 1879-1969 (A-78)

Novelist. Wrote Raleigh's Eden (1940), first of 12-volume "Carolina Series," based on early N.C. history. Her home, "Bandon," stood 1/2 mile northwest.

Henderson Walker c. 1660-1704 (A-73)

Acting governor, 1699-1703; attorney general, judge, and vestryman. Grave is 75 feet west.

Harriet Jacobs c. 1813-1897 (A-72)

Fugitive slave, writer, & abolitionist. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) depicts her early life. Lived in Edenton.

Francis Corbin (d) 1767 (A-69)

Granville agent, jurist, legislator. Provoked "Enfield Riot." Home, "the Cupola House," 2 blks. S.

Thomas C. Manning 1825-1887 (A-67)

U.S. Minister to Mexico; chief justice, La. Supreme Court.; La. adjutant gen., 1863-65; taught at Edenton Academy. Lived here.