Economic and Social History of
Chowan County, NC
1880-1915
 
By W. Scott Boyce 1917
 293 pages, indexed, searchable
 
 
- Bonus -
1850 + 1870 Census
Chowan County
Scanned pages of 
original hand-written census records
 
- Bonus -
Edenton City Directory 1959

 
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The county was named after the historical Chowanoc American Indian tribe, also called Chowan. It was formed in 1685, the name Shaftesbury was changed to Chowan (Precinct of Albemarle County, which was formed 1684).

 

 

During the American Civil War, the Albemarle Artillery was recruited in 1862 from Chowan and Tyrrell men at Edenton by local attorney

William Badham, Jr.. After cannon were recast from bronze donated as bells from local courthouses and churches to arm the battery,

the unit was renamed the Edenton Bell Battery. They named their cannon: Columbia, St. Paul, Fannie Roulac, and Edenton. Two of the guns,

long thought lost, have been returned to Edenton in recent years.

 

The St. Paul and the Edenton now can be seen on display at Edenton's waterfront park.

 

CONTENTS 
 
PART I 
Elements of Economic and Social Life 
 
CHAPTER I  Physiography '7 
 
CHAPTER II Population 22 
 
PART II 
Development of Economic Life 
 
CHAPTER III Agriculture in the Eighties 4' 
 
CHAPTER IV The Chief Farm Products in the Eighties 63 
 
CHAPTER V Agriculture, Fruit Culture, Animal Husbandry, and PouUry Raising in 19 15 80 
 
CHAPTER VI Fishing in the Eighties 81 
 
CHAPTER VII Fishing in 1915 Jo' 
 
CHAPTER VIII  Manufacturing in the Eighties 107 
 
CHAPTER IX Manufacturing in 1915 115 
 
CHAPTER X Lumbering 121 
 
CHAPTER XI Communication, Transportation, and Commerce in 1880 127 
 
CHAPTER XII Communication, Transportation, and Commerce in 19 15 139 
 
CHAPTER XIII Labor and Wages 144 
 
PART III 
Development of Social Life 
 
CHAPTER XIV Formal Education in the Eighties 157 
 
CHAPTER XV Formal Education in 1915 167 
 
CHAPTER XVI Social Customs 179 
 
CHAPTER XVII The Church in the Eighties . 195 
 
CHAPTER XVIII The Church in 1915 2c6 
 
CHAPTER XIX Sanitation and Hygiene 213 
 
CHAPTER XX Necessaries, Comforts, and Luxuries in the Eighties 219 
 
CHAPTER XXI Necessaries, Comforts, and Luxuries ini9i5 229 
 
PART IV 
Conclusions 
CHAPTER XXII

 

 

 

 

These are government scanned copies of the original

handwritten census records.

 

Legibility varies, depending on handwriting of census taker, quality of ink used, paper

damage over the years, quality of the scanning process.

 

Different from transcribed census records, these contain all information collected by the

census taker. These also give a sense of relatives and neighbors living nearby.

 

Due to population increases, more recent years require multiple files

for each census year.  Some of the earlier years also include records for other counties.

 

 

 
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