Record #:

44600

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

World Cat, with an additional facility in Greenville builds outboard powered center and dual console catamaran models. These were named first place among North Carolina statewide nominations.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , November 2025, p49 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

World Cat (Tarboro); Catamarans (Tarboro)

Record #:

44302

Author(s):

Fleming, Monika

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , January 2025, p33-34, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Winter storms--Tarboro

Record #:

44397

Author(s):

Fleming, Monika

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , February 2025, p23-24, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Winter storms--Tarboro

Record #:

44396

Author(s):

Lamm, Laura Ashley

Abstract:

It is noted that four facilities in North Carolina, including one planned for Tarboro will act as final stops in Amazon's transportation network before packages are delivered to customers. the Tarboro facility will have approximately 70,000 square feet of space and will be located in the Tarboro Commerce Center.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , February 2025, p18, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Amazon--Tarboro

Record #:

44303

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

Locating a 32 acre parcel in the Tarboro Commerce Center, the facility is expected to employ about 50 persons. the goal is to reduce wait time for orders, even to the point of a customer similarly being able to drive to the store.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , January 2025, p15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Amazon--Tarboro; Tarboro--Businesses; Tarboro Commerce Center Industrial Park; Carolinas Gateway Partnership (Edgecombe County)

Record #:

44694

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

Amazon purchased the 31.8 acre property in 2024. Promoters notes the facility strengthens Edgecombe county as a logistics center for industrial concerns along eastern North Carolina's transportation network.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , March 2026, p18, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Amazon--Tarboro

Record #:

43870

Author(s):

Cushing, Rose

Abstract:

Weldon Mills Distillery opened in 2019 in a former 1892 corn mill in Weldon. In its brief existence , it is able to boast as being among the finest bourbon distilleries in the world. In 2021, it won the International Whiskey Competition's Best Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey Award. tours with trolley service are provided to the public.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , February 2023, p32-33, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bourbon manufacture--North Carolina; Bourbon distilleries--Weldon

Record #:

44503

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

A graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, Knicole Bryant, a Tarboro High School graduate recently launched Tailored Dreams Academy in Tarboro.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , July 2025, p39-40, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fashion designers--Tarboro

Record #:

44149

Author(s):

Baker, Bryana Storm

Abstract:

B.C. Carlisle began the business in 1874 in conjunction with building furniture and caskets. a noticeable change in the business came after COVID, with less floral designs, more cremations and more visitations than funerals.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , July 2024, p47, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Funeral homes--Tarboro

Record #:

44504

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

This replica display includes copies of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and the nation's Civil Rights Amendments. Roosevelt Higgs began the project in 2023 after approaching the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners. The display is the 69th one in the United States and the 41st one in North Carolina.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , July 2025, p17-18, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Exhibitions--freedom displays--Tarboro

Record #:

44012

Author(s):

Fleming, Monika

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , March 2024, p51-52, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Restaurants--Tarboro; DeBerry's Colonial Dinning Room (Tarboro)

Record #:

44395

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

The new book, "Dr. Milton D. Quigless, Sr. Story: A Memoir of Race, Medicine, and Purpose in the Segregated South" is essentially the same as an earlier edition published in 2009 and titled "Looking Back - The Way Things Were, The Autobiography of Dr, Milton D. Quigless". Quigless originally came to Rocky Mount to practice but was referred by Dr. Avon there to a post in Tarboro. his Story is interesting as fifth grade dropout, entertainer, Pullman porter and finally medical student and practicing African American physician during the Great Depression.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , April 2025, p42, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Quigless, Dr. Milton (Tarboro); Physicians--African American--Tarboro

Record #:

44502

Author(s):

Dixon, Amy

Abstract:

The recent advances to the hospital's Labor & Delivery unit were contributed by donors and community support..

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , June 2025, p48, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

ECU Health--Edgecombe Hospital; Infants--Labor & Delivery--ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital

Record #:

43869

Author(s):

Lamm, Laura Ashley

Abstract:

The county is currently needing more property to offer its global client base. The county's Kingsboro business park is already well-known and will reach its capacity in 2024. The Battleboro Business Park is is situated next to the CSXNCDOT intermodal terminal. The new park named Edgecombe East will be located off US Hwy 64 East.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , June 2023, p20, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Business parks--Edgecombe County; Kingsboro Business Park; Battleboro Business Park; Edgecombe East Business Park

Record #:

44249

Author(s):

Walker, John H.

Abstract:

In September 2024, Edgecombe County Commissioners approved a $4, 925,444 contract for a new facility on3005Anaconda Road with A.R Chesson Construction in Williamston, N.C.

Source:

Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine (F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , October 2024, p62, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Animal shelters--Tarboro