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39264
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History of the Smallwood Family; Past and Present History of Aurora, NC; Facts About Bath, NC; List of other articles written by Robert Tripp Bonner that appeared in the Washington Progress.
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Pamteco Tracings (NoCar F262.B37 P35), Vol. 14 Issue No. 1, June 1998, p45-49
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40341
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The letter writer talks of slow business, the military company doing well and music entertainments put on to raise money for the military company.
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42842
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First settled around 1733, Tarboro was chartered on Nov. 30, 1760. the town has a 45-square-block historic district. In 1937, one of the nation's oldest electric cooperatives, Edgecombe-Martin County ENC was established in Tarboro. It is the oldest rural electric cooperative in North Carolina.
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17242
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Tarboro, located in Edgecombe County, is featured in THE STATE's series on North Carolina cities. It is a city of commerce and industry. Among items described are the Tarboro milk plant, which is municipally owned and is the only one like it in the country and only one of three in the world; city government; hospital; the soy bean and peanut crushery; and the city schools.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 52, May 1939, p25-32, il
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14687
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Edgecombe County, named after Richard first Baron of Edgecombe, once encompassed an area equal to 17 modern era counties drawn from Bertie Precinct in 1732. Initially the county seat was Enfield, and then moved to Halifax, before finally being established at Tarboro. Tarboro, then Tarborough, was incorporated September 23, 1760 and historically the spelling was not agreed upon until January 14, 1898 by the Post Office that recognized only the current spelling. In 1947, Tarboro represented a vibrant county seat with modern hospitals, public facilities, and industry.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 14 Issue 46, Apr 1947, p20-27, il
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43918
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Lewis Bond moved his family to Tarboro NC around 1820. Lewis was a cabinet maker and operated his business in a tavern on the corner of Main and Pitt Streets in Tarboro. He and his wife, Siddie Nelson, parented six children. Lewis was a member of the Masonic brotherhood. His wife passed away in 1832 and Lewis passed away in 1858. His son Francis L. Bond also known as Frank took over the family business of cabinet making. Frank kept a journal filled with remedies and town happenings. That journal is now preserved in the Joyner Library Special Collections at East Carolina University. Frank went missing in August of 1890 and his body was recovered in September of 1890.
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37164
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Tarboro’s Town Common, established in 1760, currently has a place in town life as part of a park. Its original purposes, designated by the Colonial legislature, including livestock grazing and military drills. Purposes today include the inspiration for a product made by the Tarboro Brewing Company and site for the Happening on the Common each May.
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43110
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"William Samuel Clark moved to Tarboro from his native Martin County around 1872 and opened a dry goods store. Over the years he would expand the store and inventory of a business that would last over 100 years, closing in 1985."