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Bath, North Carolina. / 35.47028°N 76.81194°W / 35.47028; -76.81194. Bath is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. Located on the Pamlico River, it developed a trade in naval stores, furs, and tobacco. The population was 249 as of 2010. [4] North Carolina’s first town and port of entry, it was chartered on March ...
By 1708, Bath consisted of 12 houses and about 50 people. Trade in naval stores, furs, and tobacco was important, and Bath became the first port of entry into North Carolina. In 1707, a grist mill and the colony’s first shipyard were established in the town. A library sent to St. Thomas Parish in 1701 became the first public library in the ...
European settlement near the Pamlico River in the 1690s led to the founding of Bath, North Carolina's first town, in 1705. By 1708, Bath had 50 people and 12 houses. It soon became North Carolina's first port. Political rivalries, Indian wars, and piracy marked its early years but in 1746 Bath was considered for the colony's capital.
Bath became the first incorporated town in North Carolina in 1705. The town also boasted the state's first library (1701), church (1734), and free school (ca. 1753). Bath is thought to be on or near the site of the sixteenth-century Indian town of Secotan, an area that late in the seventeenth century was inhabited by the Pamlico Indians.
Bath, town, Beaufort county, eastern North Carolina, U.S., on the Pamlico estuary. The first proprietary grant in the area (1684) embraced the town site, about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Greenville, then occupied by a Native American village called Pamlicoe. Settled by the English (1695), it became the seat of old Bath county (formed 1696 ...
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By 1708, Bath consisted of 12 houses and about 50 people. Trade in naval stores, furs, and tobacco was important, and Bath became the first port of entry into North Carolina. In 1707, a grist mill and the colony's first shipyard were established in the town. A library sent to St. Thomas Parish in 1701 became the first public library in the colony.
1 Bath Historic District, 207 Carteret St, ☏ +1 252 923-0525. Tu-Sa 9AM-5PM. Exhibits and tours on historic Bath, the oldest community in North Carolina (though Edenton is claimed to be the oldest permanent settlement). $2. ( updated Nov 2021 | edit) 35.47693 -76.81372. 2 Palmer-Marsh House, ☏ +1 252 923-3971.
