Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Elizabeth City, North Carolina Elizabeth City's Main Street Elizabeth City's Main Street Official seal of Elizabeth City, North Carolina Elizabeth City is a town/city in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, in the United States.
As of the 2014 census, it had a populace of 18,047. Elizabeth City is the governmental center of county and biggest city of Pasquotank County. It is the cultural, economic and educational core of the sixteen-county Historic Albemarle region of northeastern North Carolina. Elizabeth City is the center of the Elizabeth City Micropolitan Statistical Area, with a populace of 64,094 as of 2010, and is part of the larger Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC Combined Statistical Area. The town/city is the economic center of the region, as well as home to many historic sites and cultural traditions.
Marketed as the "Harbor of Hospitality", Elizabeth City has had a long history of shipping due to its locale at a narrowed bend of the Pasquotank River. Founded in 1794, Elizabeth City prospered early on from the Dismal Swamp Canal as a mercantile city, before later shifting into a varied industrialized and commercial focus.
While Elizabeth City still retains its extensive waterfront property, it is linked to neighboring counties and metros/cities by highways and bridges and serves as the site of the biggest US Coast Guard base in the nation.
1.1 Battle of Elizabeth City Located at the narrows of the Pasquotank River, the region that would turn into Elizabeth City soon served as a trading site, and as early as the mid 18th century, inspection stations and ferries were established.
In 1793, assembly of the Dismal Swamp Canal began, which would drive Elizabeth City's commerce, and the North Carolina Assembly incorporated the town of "Redding".
In 1794, the town was retitled "Elizabethtown", but due to confusion with another town of the same name, in 1801, the town/city was retitled "Elizabeth City". The name "Elizabeth" has been attributed to Elizabeth "Betsy" Tooley, a small-town tavern proprietress who donated much of the territory for the new town. The improvements made to the Dismal Swamp Canal made Elizabeth City a financial center of trade and commercially prosperous for the early 19th century.
Further bolstering Elizabeth City's financial success was the boss in 1827 of the customs home from Camden County to Elizabeth City.
From only 1829 to 1832, Elizabeth City's tolls tripled.
During the American Civil War the Confederate States had a small fleet stationed at Elizabeth City.
Elizabeth City was under Union control for the remainder of the war, though Confederate irregulars engaged in guerrilla warfare with Union forces in the region for the remainder of the war.
Meanwhile, overland travel slowly improved, furnishing greater trade between neighboring counties, and a ferry continued to be used for transport between Elizabeth City and Camden County.
However, the culmination of competing canals and barns s around Elizabeth City diverted some of its financial success to neighboring cities.
Submarine chaser SC-708 under assembly at Elizabeth City Shipyard.
SC-1280 was one of thirty subchasers assembled at the Elizabeth City Shipyard.
Such new opportunities established Elizabeth City as a grow deep-water port whose varied industries as lumbering, ship assembly, grain, fish and oyster processing, together once made the town/city a formidable county-wide economic center rivaling that of Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland.
With the 1881 establishment of the Elizabeth City and Norfolk Railroad, later retitled the Norfolk Southern Railway, water-based shipping was rendered less relevant, with many of the waterside industries relocating to the burgeoning cities of North Carolina's Upper Coastal Plain and Piedmont. The declaration of World War II reinvigorated Elizabeth City's industries, especially in ship assembly, textiles and aeronautics.
Establishment of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City in 1940 as well as Navy Air Station Weeksville in 1941 provided valuable surveillance by seaplane and dirigible of German U-boats actively targeting American merchant shipping in East Coast waters.
Additionally from 1942 to 1944, the Elizabeth City Shipyard produced thirty 111-foot SC-class submarine chasers, four YT-class yard tugboats, and six 104-foot QS-class quick supply boats. The Elizabeth City Shipyard not only assembled the biggest number of subchasers for the war accomplishment (30 out of 438 total), but also set the record assembly time for the SC-class, with SC-740 laid down in only thirty days. As of June 2013, the Elizabeth City Shipyard is still in operation.
The Elizabeth City Historic District, Elizabeth City State Teachers College Historic District, Elizabeth City Water Plant, Episcopal Cemetery, Norfolk Southern Passenger Station, Northside Historic District, Old Brick House, Riverside Historic District, and Shepard Street-South Road Street Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Main article: Battle of Elizabeth City During the Civil War, there was a small battle between the Confederate states and the Union near Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River on February 10, 1862.
An aerial view of Elizabeth City.
Elizabeth City is positioned alongside the Pasquotank River, which joins to Albemarle Sound.
Elizabeth City is positioned at 36 17 44 N 76 13 30 W (36.295585, 76.224954). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Elizabeth City has a total region of 12.2 square miles (31.7 km2), of which 11.6 square miles (30.1 km2) is territory and 0.62 square miles (1.6 km2), or 5.09%, is water. Located in the "Inner Banks" region of North Carolina, Elizabeth City is largely flat and marshy with an altitude of only 12 feet (3.7 m) above sea level. The city's semi-coastal geography has played an meaningful part in its history Elizabeth City once hosted grow oyster and timber industries.
Elizabeth City has a humid subtropical climate, experiencing cyclic variation in temperature and precipitation.
On average, Elizabeth City has its highest temperature and accumulation of rain in July.
Elizabeth City generally experiences thunderstorms amid these summer months and has railroadmany tropical storms and hurricanes due to its adjacency to the Atlantic Ocean.
Climate data for Elizabeth City, North Carolina (1981 2010 normals) Elizabeth City District Court Elizabeth City serves as the governmental center of county of Pasquotank County.
The town/city council is composed of eight council members and the town/city manager, propel by the council members.
The town/city manager serves a largely executive function, overseeing the city's administrative departments, appointing department heads and town/city employees, and informing the rest of the council of relevant municipal conditions.
Currently, the town/city manager is Rich Olsen. The eight council members, on the other hand, act in a legislative regard, adopting town/city policies, holding the town/city manager responsible, and choosing a mayor pro-tempore from its council members.
Elizabeth City has an office for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, headed by Terrence W.
Elizabeth City also is situated in North Carolina's First Congressional District, served by US Representative G.
Elizabeth City Coast Guard Air Station Established in 1940 and positioned southeast of Elizabeth City's city-limits, Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City is the biggest United States Coast Guard Air Station in the nation, and home to six commands - Air Station Elizabeth City, Aviation Logistics Center, Aviation Technical Training Center, Base Elizabeth City, C-27 - J Asset Project Office (APO), and Small Boat Station Elizabeth City - as well as the off-base National Strike Force Coordination Center positioned in northern Elizabeth City.
The USCG Air Station and the Aviation Technical Training Center (ATTC) in Elizabeth City were featured in various scenes of the 2006 Disney movie The Guardian, standing in for Kodiak, Alaska.
Elizabeth City is home to one of the United States' several airship factories. Many of the nation's commercial blimps are made and serviced here.
Intended to make Elizabeth City a premier core of the aviation industry, the airpark hopes to attract primary tenants as well as the Aviation Science programs of Elizabeth City State University and related programs by the College of the Albemarle.
Elizabeth City is home to the Museum of the Albemarle, the northeastern county-wide branch of the North Carolina Museum of History.
Downtown Elizabeth City is also home to Arts of the Albemarle, positioned in the Historic Lowery-Chesson Building.
The Center has been an economic driver for downtown Elizabeth City since it's opening.
The Virginia Dare Hotel and Arcade is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and continues to dominate the horizon of Elizabeth City since its culmination in 1927.
It remained the premier hotel and center of Elizabeth City's civil activities for over 40 years.
Judge John Warren Davis, a justice on the Federal Court of Appeals, was born in Elizabeth City, as was John C.
During the same era, nine-ball legend Luther Lassiter was born in Elizabeth City, and advanced much of his skill at pool in the City Billiards pool hall. Elizabeth City was the 1929 place of birth of the American Moth Boat, a class of recreational sailboats invented by Dr.
The town/city hosts a Moth Boat Regatta annually in late February. The Moth Boat features prominently on the city's seal.
Elizabeth City hosts the North Carolina Potato Festival, an annual celebration of the potato, one of the region's most meaningful crops.
The festival has steadily turn into one of the most prominent draws in northeastern North Carolina, and is usually held in mid-May in downtown Elizabeth City.
Elizabeth City's shopping districts are generally centered on the Historic Downtown CBD, the Ehringhaus Street/US 17 Business strip, Hughes Boulevard/US 17, or the newest outgrowth, the City Center West/Halstead Boulevard Extended/Weeksville Road/NC 344 corridor.
Historic Downtown Elizabeth City Ehringhaus Street bridges the other shopping districts, connecting Downtown Elizabeth City at its easterly end to the Halstead and Hughes Boulevard corridors toward its terminus.
Connecting US 17 Bypass to Elizabeth City is the mostly new corridor of Halstead Boulevard Extended, a route co-established with the bypass' creation in 2002.
The Daily Advance has served as Elizabeth City's sole daily journal since its beginning by Herbert Peele in 1911. In mid-2009, the Daily Advance was bought by Cooke Communications. The Independent was a weekly journal serving Elizabeth City and the encircling Albemarle region from 1908 to 1939.
Elizabeth City is part of the Hampton Roads tv market.
The only station based in Elizabeth City is W18 - BB-D, transmitting from a fortress on the Elizabeth City State University campus.
All enhance education is overseen by the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank County School Board of Education under the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public School fitness (ECPPS) which operates seven elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, and one alternative high school. Elizabeth City Middle Elizabeth City is home to one private and two enhance establishments of higher education.
Elizabeth City State University, the smallest constituent member of the 16-campus University of North Carolina System, is a historically black institution, enrolling 2,930 students as of fall 2011 on a compact 200-acre (0.81 km2) ground along the city's southern edge.
ECSU offers Aviation Science programs at their training facility at Elizabeth City Regional Airport, as well as a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm - D) program in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), flagship school of the UNC system. Mid-Atlantic Christian University, a private Christian institution established in 1948, is positioned along the Pasquotank River north of downtown Elizabeth City.
The major healthcare provider in Elizabeth City is Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, a 182-bed county-wide medical center and part of the Sentara Healthcare system.
As part of its municipal mandate, Elizabeth City operates full-service police (ECPD), fire (ECFD) and enhance housing departments as well as water, sewer, sanitation and electric divisions which operate a several deep wells, a water purification plant, three water towers, and a combined sewage/wastewater treatment plant. The town/city cooperates with Pasquotank County in joint operation of the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Parks and Recreational Department (ECPPRD), Department of Social Services (ECPDSS), and the Witherspoon Memorial Library, the biggest facility and head office of the four-county East Albemarle Regional Library System. As with other Albemarle-area municipalities, Elizabeth City purchases wholesale electricity from Dominion North Carolina Power, operating 230k - V transmission lines through the Albemarle area. Electricity is generated from coal-fired and nuclear power plants in close-by Chesapeake and Surry, Virginia, in the order given. Elizabeth City is linked to neighboring counties and metros/cities through a network of highways.
Bypass US 17 immediately splits off to the northwest as mainline US 17 continues to the northeast toward Elizabeth City.
Mainline US 17 continues through Elizabeth City as Hughes Boulevard (the former US 17 Bypass from 1969 to 2002).
From here, mainline US 17 and 158 make a curve to the northwest, departing Elizabeth City as a continuance of North Road Street.
Ehringhaus (1933-1937), the only governor native to Elizabeth City.
Route 158 enters Elizabeth City from points east, including the Outer Banks, as well as Dare, Currituck, and Camden counties.
NC 344 serves as a primary commercial and industrialized corridor along Elizabeth City's southern edge, providing access to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, Elizabeth City State University, and the non-urban unincorporated improve of Weeksville.
Elizabeth City has a joint civil-military airport, shared with U.S.
Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, and positioned 4 miles (6 km) southeast of the town/city limits, titled the Elizabeth City Regional Airport (IATA: ECG, ICAO: KECG, FAA LID: ECG).
Elizabeth City has regularly scheduled inter-city bus service through Greyhound.
This line had first been established in 1881 as the Elizabeth City and Norfolk Railroad, later retitled the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Passenger service to Elizabeth City ended in 1947.
Herbert Harvell Bateman (1928-2000) was born in Elizabeth City and went on to turn into a Virginia State Senator (Newport News, VA) and U.S.
John Warren Davis (1867-1945) was born in Elizabeth City and went on to turn into a federal judge and a New Jersey politician.
Ehringhaus (1882-1949), an Elizabeth City native, was the first and only Elizabeth Citian to serve as North Carolina governor (1933-1937).
Although not an Elizabeth City native, he spent his second year of college at Elizabeth City State College (now Elizabeth City State University) in 1937.
Luther "Wimpy" Lassiter (1918-1988) was a world-renowned nine-ball pool player and an Elizabeth City native.
His pool playing skills were perfected at the former City Billiards hall in downtown Elizabeth City.
Scotty Mc - Creery (born 1993) is a current nation music singer and native of Garner, North Carolina, whose grandmother is an Elizabeth City resident. Mc - Creery has an exhibit dedicated to his musical longterm position at the Museum of the Albemarle, the northeastern branch of the North Carolina Museum of History, in Elizabeth City. Owens (born 1946) is an Elizabeth City native as well as former chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc.
Roach was born in the northern Pasquotank County township of Newland north of Elizabeth City.
Cecil Rouson (born 1962) was an Elizabeth City native as well as NFL running back for the New York Giants and the Cleveland Browns.
Barbra Lassiter (1933-2012) was born in Elizabeth City.
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