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44381
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An Edgecombe County native and graduate of Atlantic Christian College, Weeks was a regular columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer. Her first publication was "God Given Messages" in 1930 and her last was "Beauty and the Truth" in 1960.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , March 2025,
p25-26
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44397
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Author Monika Fleming talks about winter storms for Tarboro in more recent memory. Included are the 1967 spring Blizzard, the March 1980 storm and most destructive, the Dec. 9, 1989 ice storm. Major storms were recorded in January 2009 and January 2010.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , February 2025,
p23-24, il
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44302
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This article reviews some significant past winter storm events in the town of Tarboro. Earliest notation is the winter of 1848. The winters of 1856 and 1857 were particularly active. In January 1857, it was reported that the Tar River had frozen over. With some successive snow falls , the thermometer eventually reached 5 below zero. Most notorious was the 1927 blizzard that stopped all forms of traffic, including, railroad trains from the Norfolk area.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , January 2025,
p33-34, il
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44394
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Noted is a student project in 2009, in which stones were cleaned in Tarboro's Old Town Cemetery, located in the block of St. James, St. Patrick, St. David and Pitt Streets. Uncovered on the stones were inscriptions revealing clues to Tarboro natives. The oldest marked graves date to the 1820s.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , April 2025,
p25-26, il
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44110
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The earliest photographer on record for Edgecombe County is M.M. Mallon in 1860. Regarding local resident women photographers, Lena Pennington Martin produced notable images of Tarboro people and places in ten 1890s as did Lota Leigh Draughon for the community of Fishing Creek. Most prominent at the turn of the 20th century was S.R. Alley, who produced the first news type photos for the area. Most prolific of Edgecombe photographers was M.S. :Coca-Cola" Brown, working from the 1910s through the 1950s.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , June 2024,
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44148
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Methodist minister, John Francis Speight moved from Greene County to Edgecombe County with his marriage to Emma Lewis in September 1840. Rev. Speight established a church in the area that later became known as Speight's Chapel. In 1857, he began the construction of his home known as the Cedars. Designed by William Ruffin, the house is fine example of Italianate design. A genealogical sketch of the Speight family follows.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , July 2024,
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44165
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The Staton family was one of many families that contributed to Edgecombe County's prosperity and growth during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Baker Staton, who died in 1866, did much in the way of experimental farming prior to the Civil War. His plantation known as Cotton Valley is currently surrounded by a well known golf course in the area. Dr. L.L. Staton is credited with the first successful gastronomy in America. His son, Aldolphus earned distinction in the Navy as a rear admiral. He retired after World War II and established a program for building homes for wounded solders.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , August 2024,
p21-22, il
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44012
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DeBerry's Colonial Dining Room was a fixture in Tarboro from 1940s through the 1960s. Located across from the Town Common in a house thought to be one of Tarboro's oldest, the restaurant was featured in a 1959 Duncan Hines Travel Guide. Remembered are recipes like grated sweet potato pudding. Noted cook was Gussie Harrell. Historical documents related to the business have recently been added to digitalnc.org.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , March 2024,
p51-52, il
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44007
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Among the many developments that transpired in Edgecombe County was Carolina Telephone and Telegraph in 1896. County native Elias Carr was elected North Carolina governor in 1892. Tarboro's grand city hall opened in December of 1890. The structure was built by local craftsmen, including George Mathewson, an African American building contractor. a summary of the decade is given, including two 1890s vintage photos from the files of Edgecombe County Library.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , February 2024,
p51-52, il
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44050
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Over 400 women in Edgecombe County served as either a member of the army or the navy during World War II. Fortunately much information about them was recorded in a locally published newsletter, "The Home Front News". Of the group, three women have particularly interesting stories; namely, Beverley Bridgers, Mary Howard and Westry Battle. Bridgers met Eleanor Roosevelt on the day before the war began. Howard set up Red Cross centers and by the end of the war , Westry had become the highest woman officer in the U.S. Army.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , April 2024,
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44103
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Placed on the Town Common in the late 1930s to preserve it, the press is believed to be one of the last surviving devices if its kind in North Carolina and possibly the South as a whole. In the1850s, Edgecombe County was the leading producer of cotton in North Carolina. The Tarboro Press was originally located on the Norfleet Plantation.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , May 2024,
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44248
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This article talks in-depth about some of the damage that occurred after Hurricane Floyd in eastern North Carolina and the help that people, including President Bill Clinton, offered to others and their pets to recover from it.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , October 2024,
p21-23, il
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44255
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In this article, local historian Monika Fleming reviews business activity in Tarboro in 1974 from the pages of the "Daily Southerner". Some of the businesses operating at that time include Adler's, Parkhill Mall, Belk Tyler, Long Manufacturing, W.S. Clark and Sons and Barnhill Contractors.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , November 2024,
p21-23, il
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44272
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The author updates on persons doing recent genealogical research related to Edgecombe County. Noted are Nigel Wells from Ozark Alabama researching his "Wills" family patriarchs and visiting Strawberry Hill, the home of Anna Whitaker Wills. Likewise was Charles Dozier, who visited the historic Wilkinson-Dozier home near Conetoe..
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , December 2024,
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43863
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In 1811, Jerimiah Battle reported a total of 17 schools operating in Edgecombe County with 400 students. the first long-standing school in Tarboro was started in 1813. I eventually evolved into separate male and female academies. A report published by the Edgecombe County Board of Education noted construction of 14 schools for African Americans through the Rosenwald School fund.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , August 2023,
p27-28, il
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