THE HERALD, Ahoskie, N. C MILESTONE YEAR 1959—PAGE 7
.iiARLY STREET SCENES IN AHOSKIE: Taken somailms be..ore the First wci:!! looking westward. The phoiegrapher aimed at ihe railroad crossing in both shots.
War. these fameus photographs of Aheskis's Main Strest indicate the growth which The photos ol Main Street, end other scenes oi- Church .Street, v^ere used cn picture
the town had seen m the first SO ysai's after it stcried as a village at a railroad post cards wliich citizens of the young town proudly mailed to +heir friends and
crossing. The left photo shews Main Street looking oast, the right sho’-vs, the street proudly saved sc thst future generations could get a look at the town in its infancy.
GARRETT HOUSE—J. R. Garrett, a Bertie County carpenter, came to Ahoskie as a. young man
when the town was growing by leaps and bounds. He established himself as “The Builder’’ of
the young community. This rambling frame mansion was built by Garrett for his family on the
spot where a big sawmill had located in the 1880’s and given impetus to the beginning of the
town. The house, still the home of Garrett’s son and his family, is located at the corner of Cath
erine Creek Road and Church Street.
COURT
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license to retail whiskey at the
hotel in Murfreesboro.
Conflict Ends
When next the Hertford County
Court met at Union Church, the
Civil War was over. Government,
business, all had come to a
temporary standstill as the
stunned South waited for the next
move.
The County Court took cogniz
ance of the conditions. It passed
a motion lading a tax—“hoping
the authorities will allow it’’—on
luxury items to provide for “the
needy and the destitute.’’ The tax
was 12.5 cents on the 3100 valua-1
tion of watches, plate, jewelry, [
furniture and other items. j
The tax was laid “taking in j
consideration the need:,' and des- j
titute, the situation of the pauper I
and poor . . . wc must do some- j
thing, or they will suffer as no i
Christian people would like to j
see.
A committee was named to look
for a ferry flat, “said to be now
at Winton,’’ to be used at Mur
freesboro. Committees were nam
ed to let the keeping of Tar Land
ing and W’iccacon ferries and
Hill’s Bridge ferrie.s.
And thus, the story of Hertford’s
war years, as told in the actions
of the county’s governing body,
ended.
In August, 1805, a new Court
met, composed of men appointed
by the provisional government of
the state. It was to work diligently
for two j-ears before military
government took over, repairing
the damage of four years of war.
PROFESSOR JOHN KLviBE.-tLY
Buckhorn Headmaster
A Famous Professor
Professor John Kimberly was
one of Hertford - County’s most -
famcu.s early educators.
A native of Brooklyn, Kim
berly came to Hertford in the
1840’s to become master at
Buckhorn Academy at present-
day Como, a school which had
been operating since 1820.
Highly trained, Kimberly
quickly established the school as
one of good reputation and drew
students from throughout north
eastern North Carolina. Many of
the sons of leading Hertford
families trained under Kimberly
during this decade.
The professor married daugh
ters of two important families
—Maney and Capehart.
In 1854. he was elected to a
yr'ofes.'icrsltip of 'chemistry at the
University of North Carolina and
served there until the Civil War.
He served at the University for
a short period after the war,
and then moved to Asheville,
where he became a gentleman
farmer.
Thousands of letters and other
manuscripts collected by Kim
berly and members of his fami
ly during the 1840-60 period are
in the Southern Historical Col
lection at Chapel Hill. They
constitute a rich source of con
temporary material on life in
Hertford County in the middle
of the 19th century.
NAVAL STORES—Little known, but true, is the fact that the
production of “naval stores” was the chief industry of Hertford
County during much of its early history. This photograph shows
one method used to get the resin from pine trees out of which
tar, known as “pitch,” was manufactured. The trees were “bled”
for the resin. More typical of the work, however, was. the tar
“kiln” in which felled trees were slowly burnt and the escaping
resin lun off into baiTels. Production of naval stores was the
main indu.stry of the area during the entire colonial period and
during much of the first half cl the 19th century.
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