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38281
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The county seat of Tyrrell County is also the only town in the county, which was founded in 1793. It’s also defined as one is its identity as a singular town—one doctor, one lawyer, one pharmacy, one road. How it’s defined as two: Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds forming the second largest estuary in the country; two animals, the red wolf and red cockaded woodpecker, being protected species.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 6, Nov 2012, p46-50, 52, 54, 56-58, 60, 62, 64-65 Periodical Website
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42968
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The original 1926 drawbridge crossing though Scuppernong River and leading into Columbia's Main Street is still fondly remembered by Columbia residents. The bridge was decommissioned by a later two-lane and eventually four -lane span.
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38137
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Celebration of the 225th anniversary of the town’s founding was seemingly incomplete without recognizing the anniversaries for the founding of two of its preservation resources. Site of the Theatre founded in 1938, the Columbia Theatre Cultural Resources Center can also be called a museum, with its preserving a record of Columbia’s traditional lifeways. A nonprofit that helped found the Resource Center, Partnership for the Sounds also helps to preserve Inner Banks ecosystems through advocacy and educational endeavors.
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43233
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The Estelle Randall, a North Carolina passenger freight steamer was destroyed by fire while docked in Columbia, N.C. on Jan17, 1910. Diving expeditions led by the East Carolina University underwater archaeology program have recovered many artifacts from the sunken vessel now on display at the Columbia Theater.