Civil War
Asa Biggs
&
Biggs House
Old Martin County Courthouse
Main Street -
Williamston, ca 1917
Old City Hall - Williamston
Skewarkee Primitive Baptist Church
Docton W. Bagley Office
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Martin County
History
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Tuscarora Indians lived in this area until English settlers pushed them south and north.
Martin County was created when Halifax and Tyrrell counties decided they were too large.
People had to travel too far to get to their county seats and transportation networks were poor.
The new county was formed from parts of those two counties in 1774 and originally named for
Josiah Martin, the last Royal Governor of North Carolina.
After the Revolutionary War, the people were about to change the name because of bitterness
toward Martin. However, they decided to keep the name in honor of Alexander Martin, a state
representative to the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention. He was also Governor of North
Carolina from 1789 to 1792.
...............more history of Martin County, Williamston, and the Roanoke River area.
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