Edenton Historic District (Boundary Increase II)

Edenton is a historic port town on the northern shore of Albemarle Sound in northeastern North Carolina, laid out on a grid that a 1769 survey by Claude Joseph Sauthier recorded and an 1872 Gaylord map later extended. This boundary expansion adds neighborhoods to the east, north and west of the original historic district, which was listed in 1973. The northern area holds most of the town's African American resources, including rows of houses, churches, lodges, schools, cemeteries and a National Guard Armory built in 1936-1937 on North Broad Street. The expansion also documents the years from 1923 to 1959, a period that includes the 1931 Post Office, WPA projects, the 1910 railroad trestle bridge across the sound, peanut and cotton industries, and the Marine Corps Air Station commissioned in 1943. Architectural styles range from late nineteenth-century vernacular cottages to World War II-era Minimal Traditional houses, bungalows and Colonial Revival residences. The nomination presents the expansion as a fuller record of the town's development.