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The town of Kenansville is
very old. While it began as
one of the most prosperous
?mmunities in Duplin,
tod?, one 0f the small
est. Bui, regardless of its
size, the to*, 0f Kenansville
is proud of its history' and
continues workin2 toward
the goals set by the founders
of Kenansville and our
county.
The town was laid out in
1818 consisting of the court
house sguare and two
streets. Main and Cross, and
eight lots bordering the
courthouse. Duplin estab
lished a county seat in the
community known as Grt c.
North Carolina Archives and
History records show. Four
acres of land were trans
ferred from James Pearsall
to the justices of Duplin
County for use as a county
courthouse. The four acres
are the site of the presentday
courthouse and grounds.
Prior to 1818, Duplin's
county seat was called
Duplin Court House.
The first settlements in the
Duplin area were at Sarecta,
Goshen and Grove, which are
all near the present day
Kenansville. Each of the
above settlements was es
tablished by Scotch-Irish who
came as a result of a land
grant to Dmdon merchant
Henry McCulloch. At about
the same time settlers moved
into the great Goshen Swamp
and along the North East
Cape Fear River known as
the Ulster Scots, who were
mostly Presbyterian. The Ul
ster-Scots immediately
established schools and
churches housed in log
buildings. The congregation
located in Grove and estab
lished what is accepted to be
the oldest Presbyterian
Church in North Carolina.
Grove Church dates from
about 1736. A meeting house
was erected and called Grove
Church in 1761 and the
Reverend Hugh McAden
resided there. The church
was moved in 1811 from its
original location at Routledge
Cemeterv. to a site adjoining
Grove Academy. The present
Grove Church was built in
1858.
Grove Academy was the
first school established in
Kenansville during 1786; the
Kenansville Female Semi
nary and James Sprunt In
1
stitute followed. After the
Civil War, only James Sprunt
Institute reopened.
During the early 1800$
until the Civil War, Kenans
ville and Duplin County's
chief source of wealth was
attained through the produc
tion and sale of turpentine,
lumber and cotton. Cotton in
the Duplin area did not
become one of the chief
agricultural crops until after
the Civil War. The county
farmers also produced large
amounts of corn and sweet
potatoes.
The 1850 United States
Census listed almost every
male resident of Kenansville
as a farmer. And, within
Duplin County, 18,183
barrels of turpentine were
produced in 1850, 2,627,500
plank feet of lumber was
milled. More than 2 million
feet of the timber was sold
for use by the railroad.
Duplin farms produced 445
bales of cotton weighing 400
pounds each, and by 1860
county farmers had doubled
cotton production to 1,120
bales. The production of
turpentine increased during
1860 to 22,303 barrels, while
milling of lumber decreased
to 2,001,000, the 1860
Census reported. After the
Civil War, Duplin listed a
population of 15,542 in the
1870 Census; Kenansville
township, 2.878. The 1870
production of cotton almost
equaled the 1860 level with
1,036 400-pound bales. Tur
pentine production was
steady at 20.000 barrels and
lumber milled dropped to
75,000 plank feet. By late in
the 1870s decade. Duplin's
turpentine distilleries began,
closing and of 14 within the
state in 1877, only one was
located near Kenansville.
The Wilmington and
Raleigh Railroad was char
tered in 1834 and came
through Duplin by-passing
Kenansville seven miles. The
Wilmington and Raleigh was
later known as the Wil
mington and Weldon Rail
road and the Duplin townc of
Magnolia and Warsaw
became major shipping cen
ters.
On March 30, 1614, the
Atlantic and Carolina Rail
road was chartered and ran
seven miles from Warsaw to
Kenansville. A.R Turnbull,
a native of Minnesota, and
president of the Rowland
Lumber Company, furnished
the capital to build the
railroad connecting
Kenansville to the main
shipping center in the town
of Warsaw.
The population of Kenans
ville only numbered a few
hundred until the turn of the
20th century. By 1940 the
town of Kenansville had
grown to 571, and in 1970 it
was at a population of 762
and the 1980 Census showed
more than 800 residents.
Warsaw
Garden
Club
Members of the Warsaw
Garden Club enjoyed a plant
exchange at the regular May
meeting. A variety of potted
plants, bulbs, annuals and
perennials were exchanged.
Several members were
pleased to get the Cordinal
plant, the wild flower of the
year.
The program was a 20-year
old film of a Standard Flower
Show sponsored by the
Warsaw Council of Garden
Clubs.
Mrs. E.C. Thompson con
ducted an installation ser
vice. The following 1983-84
officers were installed: Mrs.
Milton Rice, president; Mrs.
Christine Davis, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Thomas Hall,
treasurer; and Mrs. Williams
Spicer. secretary.
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