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42965
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This African American School in Hertford County operated from 1927 to 1959. The school was built with funding from the Rosenwald Foundation. a local group is currently working to restore the building.
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44359
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The Murfreesboro Historic District comprises fourteen maintained and endowed sites within a twelve block area. Architecture in the district has a distinct New England influence. Among the sites is Hertford Academy, from which Chowan University was established and the William Rhea Museum, which is the oldest commercial brick building in North Carolina.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 17 Issue 1, January 2025,
p32-35, il
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41003
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The unincorporated community, with a currently unassuming reputation, had the county’s first brick school and was Northampton’s only stop off place for an American president. The citizen for whom the community is named, Margaret Bynum Jordan, is known for helping a slave escape to the North and her quilt hanging in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 11 Issue 6, November 2019,
p38-40
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Northampton County--Description and travel; Northampton County--History; Margarettsville--history; Margaretsville--see also Margarettsville; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library--Burgwyn Family Papers; Ridley, Margaret A. B. Jordan, circa 1819-1906; Museum of Southern Decorative Arts--Margaret A.B. Jordan Ridley
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42699
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Hunter's Funeral Home was established by Howard Hunter, Sr. in 1949. Howard, Sr. was the first African-American to serve on the Hertford County School Board.
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