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We would like to provide the residents of  Edenton  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Edenton Home page. The Edenton Home page provides as much information as possible on Edenton. Knowing Edenton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Edenton’s Home page, you will also find Edenton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Edenton has a population of 4640. 43.5% of Edenton’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.5 are female. 27% of Edenton is married and 38.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $176,700, and the average rent is $580. Household median income in Edenton is $40,711, and the individual median income is $22,428. Edenton’s Ethnic is the following: Black(59.7%), White(35%), Multiple(3.3%), Hispanic(3.2%), Asian(1.4%), Other(0.7%).


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. Edenton is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. In recent years Edenton has become a popular retirement location and a destination for heritage tourism. Edenton served as the second official capital of North Carolina, during the colonial era as the Province of North Carolina, though other than housing the governor's official residence, it did not otherwise house any other governmental functions.


It served as capital from 1722 to 1743, when it was moved to Brunswick. The town was the site of the Edenton Tea Party, a protest organized by several Edenton women in 1774 in solidarity with the organizers of the Boston Tea Party. It was the birthplace of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved African American whose 1861 autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is now considered an American classic.


Edenton gained notoriety for a famous wrongful conviction during the Satanic panic era of the late twentieth century. Today, Edenton's local economy is primarily driven by tourism, and as a popular retirement location.


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