Edenton Station, United States Fish and Fisheries Commission

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.