In the center of Eastern North Carolina, a land of estuaries, rivers and agriculture, is the proud 1776 city named after George Washington. Washington is the county seat of a fine pine tree country called Beaufort County, which is nurtured by numerous rivers and streams. Portions of this land have been occupied by white and black settlers since the late 1600's. Hearty determined people, which many present day families have descended from. This book, like its companion books: Washington, North Carolina, and Beaufort County, North Carolina, contains over 230 wonderful pictures, none of which duplicate the pictures and stories of the first two books. These books contain rare glimpses of this region in the late 1800's through the 1900's. This work celebrates, in word and image, many families, churches, schools, businesses, and individuals that worked to create a unique city and county in the Tar Heel state.

The annual "Parade of Cars" event traveled from Washington, NC to Greenville, NC, each summer in the early 1900's. This picture shows the cars returning from Greenville, and going east on Second Street past the United Methodist Church in 1917. The lead car (on the right), a Studebaker, was driven by Herbert Hoell, with Ernest Harding beside him. (Photo 1917) (Courtesy WDN)

The freighter Dorothy Leigh is docked at the Norfolk-Baltimore and Carolina Boat Line in 1938. In the background can be seen the Pamlico Chemical and Ferilizer Plant. Ships arrived from Norfolk and Baltimore twice a week with tons of assorted freight, which were then distributed to all parts of Eastern North Carolina by truck. (Photo 1938 WDN)

Shown are the first nuns that taught at Mother of Mercy School for Blacks in Washington, NC, in 1927. Left to right: Mother M. de Chantel, Sr. Servius, who taught the seventh grade students, Sister Gertrude Marie, who taught first and second grades, Sister Ann, who taught third and fourth grades, and Sister Cyprian, who taught fifth and sixth grades. (Photo 1928) (Courtesy MMS and Mrs. Margaret Carrow Daniels)

On the left can be seen the Pamlico Point Lighthouse which was built in 1821. The light keeper's family lived in this octagonal shaped house. This light was the key to commerce navigation on the Pamlico River in the 1800's through about 1950. It marked a shallow shoal in the path of incoming and outgoing sailing vessels, to and from the Cape Hatteras shipping channel. This view shows a small Chesapeake Bay sloop on starboard tack (which gave her right-of-way over the schooner in the foreground) having just turned into the Pamlico River from Pamlico Sound about 1900. (Photo 1900) (Courtesy of Nancy Broadwell)

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