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Negro orator and teacher. A founder and president of Livingstone College. Born in Elizabeth City. House was 2 miles S.

Founded in 1886 for blacks by Calvin S. Brown, pastor, Pleasant Plains Baptist Church. Later a public school named for Brown.

Historian, bibliographer, collector of North Carolina books and manuscripts, professor at Trinity College, 1891-93. Birthplace 3/5 mi. E.

Governor, 1933-1937, friend of education, member of General Assembly, solicitor. Birthplace 1/4 mile north.

Founded in 1891 as Negro normal school. Four-year college after 1939. Became a university in 1969.

Opened 1848 as Chowan Baptist Female Institute. Became four-year college, 1992. A university since 2006. Two blocks south.

Charles Griffin taught in this county the first known school in N.C. 1705-08.