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    Chowan County (/tʃoʊˈwɒn/ choh-WON) is one of the 100 counties located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13...
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  • Chowan County, North Carolina Chowan River, in Virginia and North Carolina Chowan University, in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina Chowan...
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    as Bertie Precinct in 1722 from the part of Chowan Precinct of Albemarle County lying west of the Chowan River. It was named for James Bertie, his brother...
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    Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area, but has the seventh-highest number of counties in the country. Following...
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    Wow at the end of October. The county was formed in 1759 from parts of Bertie County, Chowan County, and Northampton County. It was named for Francis Seymour-Conway...
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    Dare Stones (category Dare County, North Carolina)
    said he found the stone in August 1937 by the east bank of the Chowan River, in Chowan County, North Carolina.: 7–9  On one side the stone reads: The other...
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    Anson County Early College, Polkton Anson Academy Anson County Career Connect Program Anson High School Anson New Technology High School Ashe County Early...
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    Edenton, North Carolina (category Towns in Chowan County, North Carolina)
    Edenton is a town in, and the county seat of, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States, on Albemarle Sound. The population was 4,397 at the 2020 census...
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    county status in 1739. The county was formed in 1729 as Tyrrell Precinct of Albemarle County, from parts of Bertie Precinct, Chowan Precinct, Currituck Precinct...
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    Guilford County and Mecklenburg County voted for a Republican presidential candidate and the last election in which Columbus County, Chowan County, and Tyrrell...
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    route crossed the Chowan River at Barfield. Gates County was organized in 1779 from parts of Chowan, Hertford, and Perquimans counties. It was named for...
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  • Carolina Brandon, North Carolina Brownwood, North Carolina Chestnut Hill, Ashe County, North Carolina Clifton, North Carolina Comet, North Carolina Creston, North...
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    The Chowan County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Edenton, the county seat of Chowan County, North Carolina. Built in 1767, it is one of the finest...
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    The Chowan River (cho-WAHHN) is a blackwater river formed with the merging of Virginia's Blackwater and Nottoway rivers near the state line between Virginia...
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    month of the year. This makes 4th month equal to June. A plaque at the Chowan County Court House in Edenton, North Carolina erected by the United States...
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    Albemarle Sound (category Bodies of water of Chowan County, North Carolina)
    United States located at the confluence of a group of rivers, including the Chowan and Roanoke. It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Currituck Banks...
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    Lane House (Edenton, North Carolina) (category Houses in Chowan County, North Carolina)
    This article about a property in Chowan County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding...
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  • Chowan University (/tʃoʊˈwɒn/) is a private Christian university in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. The university offers associate, bachelor's, and master's...
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  • Old Burying Ground in Beaufort, Carteret County...
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    (which would later become counties themselves in 1739): Chowan County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, and Perquimans County. From the four precincts...
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    lawyer, Grand Master of Freemasons, slave holder, and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental...
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  • Robert W. Welch Jr. (category People from Chowan County, North Carolina)
    donor to Buckley's National Review in the 1950s. Welch was born in Chowan County, North Carolina, the son of Lina Verona (née James) and Robert Henry...
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    Hayes Plantation (category Houses in Chowan County, North Carolina)
    in North Carolina National Register of Historic Places listings in Chowan County, North Carolina List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court...
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    North Carolina v. Mann (category Chowan County, North Carolina)
    a slave named Lydia and she hired her out for work to John Mann of Chowan County. Mann shot and wounded Lydia when she tried to escape a lashing. Mann...
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  • Edenton-Chowan Schools is a PK–12 graded school district serving Chowan County, North Carolina, including the town of Edenton. It was formed from the merger...
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  • Little Rascals day care sexual abuse trial (category Chowan County, North Carolina)
    The Little Rascals Day Care Center was a day care in Edenton, North Carolina, where, from 1989 to 1995, there were arrests, charges and trials of seven...
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    U.S. Route 17 in North Carolina (category Transportation in Chowan County, North Carolina)
    Bridge over the Cashie River at Windsor. At the Bertie–Chowan county line, US 17 traverses the Chowan River from Edenhouse to Edenton. East of Edenton, US 17...
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    George Washington Baines (category People from Boone County, Arkansas)
    Johnson. Baines was born near the Atlantic Ocean in either Chowan County, or Perquimans County, North Carolina, on December 29, 1809, to Thomas Baines,...
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    Cumberland County Eden – town, Rockingham County Edenton – town, Chowan County Efland – town, Orange County Elizabeth City – city, Pasquotank County Elizabethtown...
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    1759 parts of Northampton County, Bertie County, and Chowan County were combined to form Hertford County. In 1959, the county went to the U.S. Supreme...
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