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- Historic Edenton
- The Historic Edenton website is provided by North Carolina Historic Sites and contains a brief introduction and history of the town as well as a listing of special events.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Edenton National Fish Hatchery
- Take a tour of the hatchery and find out how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is helping to stock the lakes and rivers of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia with fish.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Barker House in Edenton, NC
- This is the Barker House in Edenton, North Carolina. According to its historic marker, it was the "home of Thomas Barker, N.C. agent to England, and his wife Penelope, reputed leader of the Edenton Tea Party, 1774."
- Format: image/photograph
- A dingy at dock in Edenton, NC
- A dingy floats at dock on twinkling, sunlit water in Edenton, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Cupola House in historic Edenton, NC
- This is The Cupola House in historic Edenton, North Carolina. Here is a blurb on the history of the house from cupolahouse.org: "For over two and a quarter centuries, the Cupola House has stood watch from the north shore of Edenton Bay. It was built in 1758...
- Format: image/photograph
- Mapping life in a colonial town
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14
- From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.
- Format: activity
- By L. Maren Wood.
- "A Society of Patriotic Ladies"
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.8
- 1775 cartoon, published in a London newspaper, satirizing the "Edenton Tea Party" at which prominent North Carolina women signed a petition supporting the American cause. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: cartoon
- An old house near Edenton, NC
- This is an old house a few miles north of Edenton in Chowan County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Plan of the Town & Port of Edenton in Chowan County
- Legend reads: Plan of the Town and Port of Edenton in Chowan County North Carolina Church Court House. Goal Schoolhouse. Tann Yard Wind Mill...
- Format: image/map
- A stand of trees in the middle of the water
- This is a stand of trees in the middle of the water near Edenton, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Honor Guard protecting the North Carolina Bill of Rights
- A Honor Guard protects the North Carolina Bill of Rights. They are wearing colonial-style uniforms. For a few weeks, the document was displayed in various places throughout North Carolina, including here, at the historic Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton,...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Edenton "Tea Party"
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.7
- In October 1774, several prominent women of Edenton gathered at the home of Elizabeth King, with Penelope Barker presiding, to sign a petition supporting the American cause. This letter describing the event, which came to be known as the Edenton Tea Party, appeared in a London newspaper. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- The Granville District
- Format: image/map
- 1779 map of North Carolina
- At first glance, this 1779 map of North Carolina appears to be a disorienting jumble of words. The counties are labeled, but their borders are not delineated. Rivers, on the other hand, are carefully labeled, as are court houses, chapels, and Quaker meeting...
- Format: image/map
- Map of major Carolina settlements, 1729
- Map shows Edenton, Bath, New Bern, Cape Fear, and Charles Town (Charleston) in relation to the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.
- Format: image/map
- Map of the Dismap Swamp Canal, 1867
- Map is titled "Dismal Swamp Canal connecting the Chesapeake Bay with Currituck, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and their tributary streams, by D. S. Walton, Civil Engineer, 1867." The "Proposed Southern Air Line" from Edenton to South Mill was a railroad line...
- Format: image/map
- Revolutionary North Carolina
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the era of the American Revolution. Topics include the Regulators, the resistance to Great Britain, the War for Indpendence, and the creation of new governments.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Into the wilderness: Circuit riders take religion to the people
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.2
- In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, "circuit riders" preached to residents of the backcountry who were too scattered to be served by established churches.
- Format: article
- By N. Fred Jordan Jr. .
- William Christmas' plan for Raleigh, 1792
- A. Union Square a beautiful eminence which com-mands a view of the town, and a fine prospect of the surround-ing country in the centre of this Square the State house will be placed. B. Four Groves of young oak and Hickory containing an Acre each neatly trimd...
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- The Freedmen's Bureau
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 8.5
- Report by Louisa Jacobs on her and her mother Harriet's work to educate freed people in Savannah, Georgia, after the Civil War. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
