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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,
p19-20, il
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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,
p21-22, il, por
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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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44485
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Other than dug out canoes used by Native Americans, the earliest conveyances along the Tar River wee flat boats. these were usually 50 or 60 feet long and were propelled by pushing poles along the banks of the river bottom. Steamboats first started to appear around 1836.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , July 2025,
p27-28, il
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44500
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This article focuses on tombstones connected with Old Town Cemetery adjacent to Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church.. Two items of particular note are the Bond family plot and the 1938 Memory Chapel behind it. Patriarch of the Bond family, Lewis Bond operated a large furniture making business on Main St.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , June 2025,
p27-28, il
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44512
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River traffic near Tarboro after the Civil War saw an increase. One of the most noticed vessels of that time was the steamer Cotton Plant, beginning service about 1867. This vessel sank in 1869 but was eventually recovered and put back in service until 1892, when destroyed by fire. One of the last active steamers on the Tar River, the Shiloh served the area until 1923.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , August 2025,
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44542
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The first hospital appearing in Edgecombe County was in 1901. Located on the site of the present courthouse, the three story structure was originally called the Pittman Sanitorium and in 1916 became Edgecombe General Hospital. A second hospital opened in 1929, named in memory of Dr. Henry T. Bass. Closing in the 1950s, it had distinction for being the smallest private hospital in the state. Hospital Corp of America purchased Edgecombe General in the 1980s, closing it and building Heritage Hospital across the street in 1985.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , September 2025,
p23-24, il
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44599
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The Baptists represent the oldest congregation to be found in Tarboro. Dating back to 1819, the Baptist Church split in 1829 and was carried as two separate churches, First Baptist and the Primitive Baptist Church. Episcopalians entered the scene in 1833 and in 1858 constructed a fine Gothic Revival building with William Percival as architect. Active since 1760, Methodists built their house of worship in 1855. this structure burned in 1915.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , November 2025,
p27-28, il
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44639
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This article is a follow-up to a previous article written by the author reviewing weather in the area of Tarboro for the past 50 years. The current article touches on weather events for 2025.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , January 2026,
p35-36, il
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13482
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In 1968, the small farmhouse once owned by Silas and Rebecca Everett in Edgecombe County was moved from Conetoe to Tarboro. It is part of a complex of historic buildings highlighting life in the antebellum period. Fleming describes the small, three-room home and how the residents lived there.
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39671
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39676
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