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Tyrrell County (/ ˈ t ɛər ɪ l / TAIR-il) [2] [3] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,245, [4] making it the least populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Columbia. [5] The county was created in 1729 as Tyrrell Precinct and gained county status in 1739. [6]
Born in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, Meekins received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Wake Forest University in 1896 and entered private practice in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He was Mayor of Elizabeth City in 1897, and city attorney of Elizabeth City in 1898. He was postmaster of Elizabeth City from 1903 to 1908.
Tyrrell County Courthouse: Tyrrell County Courthouse: May 10, 1979 : Main and Broad Sts. Columbia: Tyrrell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building built in 1903 in Columbia, North Carolina.
Tyrrell County Regiment, North Carolina militia (1775-1777) 9/9/1775, a Colonel in the Tyrrell County Regiment of militia. 4/15/1776 until his death in May 1778, Colonel of the 5th North Carolina Regiment; 10/4/1777, captured at Germantown, POW in Philadelphia, paroled; May 1778, fell down a flight of stairs, reopened old wounds, died as a result.
Johnston Pettigrew was born at his family's estate, "Bonarva," in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, on July 4, 1828. [1] His father was from a wealthy family of French Huguenot background. [ 2 ] One of Pettigrew's cousins, John Gibbon , would later become a major general for the Union during the Civil War. [ 3 ]
On November 2, 2003 (the sixtieth anniversary of Wilkins' death), the North Carolina Department of Transportation named U.S. Route 64 through Tyrell County, N.C., the "Major Raymond H. Wilkins Memorial Highway" for his courage and self sacrifice. [5] Wilkins' name is inscribed on the Tyrrell County War Memorial, Columbia. [6]