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Abstract:
The story of how an area where the Albemarle Sound and a bay on Lower Pasquotank River intersect became known as Old Trap. It seems there was a tavern there and the women would get mad because it would ‘trap’ men going to grind at a windmill.
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John Wright Harrison, was a farmer in the Old Trap community of Camden Co., NC. He had a store and was half owner in a windmill with Dempsey Wright on Pasquotank River. His old house was torn down in 1969 where four generations had lived. An old store ledger from 1875-77 was discovered in the attic of the house and one page is included with this biography.