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| About Pamlico County Pamlico County was named for Pamlico Sound, which in turn was named for an Indian tribe that once inhabited the northern fringes of the county. Perhaps four to five hundred Indians occupied the area during the time of exploration and early settlement. Belonging mainly to the Algonquians, the tribes were the Pamlico, Neuse, Bay River, Coree and possibly the Tuscarora and Woccon. Until the smallpox hit them around 1686, the Pamlico were the most numerous. At Nottingham Point near Arapahoe, the earliest known gravestone in the county is dated 1745. But historians know the area was settled long before that. In fact, some have theorized that the ships of Sir Walter Raleigh first expedition may have touched Pamlico's shores in 1584 or 1585. In any case, scores of settlers were living at the mouths of rivers and creeks and along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers (in what is now Pamlico County) by the time the Tuscarora Indian War broke out in 1711. After it ended in 1713, all Indians soon left the area. Bayboro Bayboro was named for the Bay River and settled long before it was incorporated in 1881. It the oldest incorporated town in the county and was the first to have town water. It became the county seat in 1876. The following year, the courthouse was relocated here from Stonewall. Although narrow, the Bay River is navigable all the way to the town. |
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