{"nrhp_refnum":"02000961","name":"Edenton Station, United States Fish and Fisheries Commission","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"200 blk. Old Fish Hatchery Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edenton","county":"Chowan County","state":"NC","lat":36.056184256500046,"lon":-76.62731138657055,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-09-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Engineering"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly fifteen-acre former federal fish hatchery complex on the southwest bank of Pembroke Creek, just west of Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. It includes dwellings, pump houses, garages, a water tank, ten fish ponds and related earthworks, with buildings dating from 1900 to 1939.","why_significant":"The complex preserves the physical record of a federal fish hatchery that operated at Edenton from about 1900 until its abandonment in 1954. It shows how fish culture and station operations were organized, with ponds, dwellings and support buildings. It also relates to the long commercial fishing history of the Albemarle Sound region.","narrative":"Edenton Station was a United States fish hatchery on a low peninsula where Pembroke Creek meets Edenton Bay, west of the town of Edenton. The roughly fifteen-acre site holds 28 contributing resources, including a two-and-a-half-story Superintendent's House built in 1900 by contractor Theo Ralph, two smaller staff dwellings, pump houses, garages, a 1929 elevated water tank, a flagpole, concrete daphnia pools and bulkheads along the creek. A manmade earthen terrace carries the dwellings above the shoreline, and ten fish ponds are enclosed by levees up to fifteen feet tall. The station operated until 1954, when the ponds were drained. The nomination ties the site to the Albemarle Sound fishing economy, which grew from early plantation fisheries through large seine operations to pound-net fishing. The Edenton complex is significant as a largely intact example of federal fish culture facilities, with a period of significance ending in 1940.","period_of_significance":"Through 1940 (the form says the period of significance ends in 1940; the start date is not stated in the available text)","architect_builder":"Theo Ralph (contractor, Superintendent's House); C. D. Cale Manufacturing Company of Newnan, Georgia (water tank)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Other: Elevated Water Tank","criteria":[],"status_note":"The hatchery was abandoned in 1954 and the ponds drained. Some ponds are maintained as open space and the dwellings are in residential use. Swamp areas were sold to Chowan County and placed under conservation easements.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.185618-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7195/47719595/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000961.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719595","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenton_Station,_United_States_Fish_and_Fisheries_Commission","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18112149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chowan-county/edenton-station-united-states-fish-and-fisheries-commission-02000961/"}