Operated 1879-1930 by N.C. Industrial Assoc. to accommodate the state's black citizens. Was held, 1891-1925, fifty yds. N.
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Black teacher, writer, & reformer. Principal, Berry O'Kelly School; a founder, N.C. Industrial Assoc. Lived 1 block S.
Important source of munitions during the American Revolution, operated occasionally since. Furnace was 100 yards southwest.
Founded here in 1881 by David and William White. Furnishings were sold widely. Plant was rebuilt after fire in 1923.
Built buggies, 1899; by 1907, automobiles; later tractors, buses, and, during WWII, trucks for military. Shop 3/4 mi. S.E. closed 1952.
Entrepreneur; opened in Henderson, 1915, first in chain of discount stores in southeast. U.S. Boyhood home 1/2 mi. SW.
Was made here by the sulphate process using southern pine in 1909, by the Roanoke Rapids Paper Manufacturing Company.
Ethyl-Dow plant, which operated here, 1934-1945, pioneered extraction of bromine from sea water. Element used in Ethyl, anti-knock gas compound.
Constructed 243 vessels at shipyard one mile west, 1941-1946. Its first Liberty Ship, the S.S. Zebulon B. Vance, launched Dec. 6, 1941.
In 1915 W.T. Culpepper launched the soybean oil industry in the U.S. at Elizabeth City Oil & Fertilizer Co., 1 mi. NE.