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Bertie County, North Carolina is in District A of the NC Highway Historical Marker Program, and has nine markers as of July 2020. [1] [2] The marker program was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1935. Since that time over 1600 black and silver markers have been placed along numbered North Carolina highways throughout
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bertie County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
Bertie County (/ ˌ b ɜːr ˈ t iː / bur-TEE) [1] [2] is a county located in the northeast area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,934. [3] Its county seat is Windsor. [4] The county was created in 1722 as Bertie Precinct and gained county status in 1739. [5]
It encompasses 36 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the village of Woodville. They primarily date between 1801 and 1927, and include six pre-American Civil War houses, one antebellum church and 1870s rectory, two antebellum church cemeteries, and three early-20th century American Craftsman houses. [2]
There were two groups of Tuscarora in North Carolina in the early 18th century, a northern group led by Chief Tom Blount and a southern group was led by Chief Hancock. Blount occupied the area around Bertie County on the Roanoke River; Hancock was closer to New Bern, occupying the area south of the Pamlico River. Blount became close friends ...
Scotch Hall is a historic plantation house located near Merry Hill, Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built about 1838, and is a large 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five bay by four bay, frame dwelling in a transitional Federal / Greek Revival style. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
The Hermitage is a historic plantation house located near Merry Hill, Bertie County, North Carolina.It consists of a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, side hall plan Georgian style rear wing with a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, Federal style addition.
Roxobel is the older town, dating to the early eighteenth century. In 1719, John Cotten, a major slave plantation owner from South Quay, Virginia, purchased 540 acres of land in what is now Bertie County and neighbouring Hertford County. He and his large family established settlements and plantations across this land.