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mmm Section Two Eight Pages DARE COUNTY TIMES FOR PROGRESS of the SOUTHERN ALBE MARLE ■ COASTLAND COUNTIES of N. C. ■Vol. 2; No. 92 MANTEO, N. C., Friday, April 2, 19.}7 vt H: t ^ rt‘ 2- COLUMBIA, OEM OF lYRBELL, ATOWNWITHClTISrilTJUCE : KNOWN AS %mn lEiiOHr One of the Most. Progressive and Fastest- Growing Towns In the State; Lives Up to Old Traditions That Have Made Southern Albemarle Famous I i'' w V By EABL DEAN Over in Tyrrell County in the center of as rich and as fertile a farming section as can be .found anywhere in these United States 1 found Columbia; a friendly, pro gressive town of some 1.200 in habitants beautifully located on the picturesque Scuppernong Riv er where the latch-string of hos pitality is always out for the vis itor and where •‘Live and Let Live" is something more than just another well-worn slogan. Situated as it is on one of the most beautiful stretches of the Scuppernong. Columbia and its genial citizenry seen to reflect the smiling abundance that Nature has so lavishly bestowed on soil and climate in this great Albe marle county. Columbia’s interesting history, like that of all Tyrrell County, goes back 200 years or more to the days when the county was first settled and named in honor of Sir John Tyrrell, one of the English Lords Proprietors who owned this great part of the Al bemarle Precinct first granted to Lord Ashley. ' When little less than a series ■ pf farm villages consisting of a few dozen acres of land under cultivation. Columbia was known j as “Heart’s Delight" from a quaint' old farm house built in the cen- ! ter of what is now the Town of | Columbia by a thrifty farmer of Scotch and Irish ancestry. This old farm’liouse. erected in the ear ly 1700’s. was curiously enough ' a'dorned. with . an enormous ‘ "olced - - Ing ■ heart" ' design \which;.was .a lt>art qt its architwtural claim to glory. Tt was'ktipralprci^les as ' "Heart’s'lSellBfit’'. and'!^so6n'''the LOOKS FORWARD TO THE FUTURE C WALLACE TATEM of Colum- b.a who has been representative of Tyrrell County for many years, is a man of pronounced convic tions, of sencci'cty and devotion to his section He is a man who Is opposed to sacrificing principles for policy. He has envisioned many things calculated to develop his county. While he has never always seen every project com pleted. he has continually stuck to his job of helping to achieve things that would help his county. He is the president of the Southern Albemarle Association. rell County’s courthouse and serv ed as a courtoom for many years before the present brick structure was built in 1903. Recently re modeled into a comfortable dwell ing, the old farm house once known far and wide as “Heart’s Delight” stands today a monu ment to good Tyrrell County tim bers and skilled workmanship. Three Courhouses The present brick courthouse built at Columbia only 34 years ago, ,is the third of a sei'les of scats" of county justice that have served ’Tyrrell since 1748. Old records show that one Stephen Lee gave the deed of sale for the first county seat which was erect ed on Kendrick’s Creek, now known ns Mackeys Creek, near what is now the village of Roper. The old deed is dated June 8. 1748. Fifty years later Benjamin Jones, a farmer and planter of some note, sold the county a site for a courthouse on the old John Pinner farm, near what is now known as Gibb’s Bathing Beach, across the river from Columbia. On March 1, 1800 Thomas Hos kins and Zebedee Hassell sold the county the land for the present courthouse building located in the town of Columbia. However court wg;s held for a number of years across the street in “Heart's De light." The four-room dwelling in which Federal Judge I. M. Meek- ins of Elizabeth City spent most of his boyhood still stands today across the street from Tyrrell County courthouse. It was used as a grand jury room for a num ber of years before the present courthouse was built and some years later was converted into a schoolhousc. “Elizabeth Town" Few people know that the name SOUTHERN ALBEMARLI FORMS ASSOiATii I F 0 R MUTUAL ABMI iC€! m?\ liie' ANCIENT FURNITURE OWNED BY FRYING PAN RESIDENT W. S. Sykes. Chairman of the Tyrrell County Board of Commis- sicners. who lives in Frying Pan section, has perhaps some of the olde.st furniture found in Tyrrell County One piece is a mahog- I any secretary which belonged to Four Counties Long Cut Off From Rest ™ StatCf fVdCOIliC Oppovtliniil/ to (xct H€t~ also has a mahogany taWc or slml- ter Acquainted; Quarterly Meeting I lar age and a flint lock musket of village that grew up on the site of what is now Columbia became known' as- “Heart’s Delight”. It stood], for many jyears'directly,^ in 'front oF, the/present .'site 'of -Tyr- Columbia" was reached for Tyr-1 retary, Manteo; George W. Jones, In the summer of 1935, it hav ing become evident to a large number of people in the counties of Tyrrell. Dare. Hyde and Wash ington that they formed a section standing alone to great extent, in all matters affecting its econo mic advancement, and so in the hope of bringing together the communities in these counties there was formed in Columbia tlie Southern Albemarle Association Out of the few meetings of tills association that have since taken place, a splendid conception of the needs of the section have been formed. The Southern Albemarle Association which meets in Ply mouth ne.xt on April 29, wa'; tlie first real attempt of these coun ties to cooperate in an organized program looking to the devcloi)- ment of this section for yeai-s to come. The people in its widely scattered towns, had heretofore been unable to be represented .n the various civic meetings that were often held in the larger cities of the East, and consequent ly the needs of the Southern Al bemarle country had never been paramounted and explained to those in a position to feel them. C. W. Tatem of Columbia has been president of this association since its beginning and the other officers are: D. V. Meeklns, Sec- about 12 guage with a barrel about 5 feet long which u.sed to be one of the champion deer slayers in those parts. Mr. Sykes has refused many offers for these heirlooms. COLUMBIA HOTEL OVERLOOKS THE SCUPPERNONG RIVER rell County’s seat after many years of Indecision during which time the settlement on the banks of the Scuppernong was known first as “Heart’s Delight" and then later as “Elizabeth Town” up un til 1800 when patriotic citizens of Tyrreli got together and decided to definitely name the village Col umbia along'about the time of the War of 1812. - . (Continu^'jOn,.j^e, seven) Recording Secretary and Treas urer, Columbia. The Vice Presi dents are as follow: Hyde County, Hon. W. W. Watson, who is chair man of the Board of Commis sioners at Lake Landing: Dare County, Melvin R. Daniels, Regis ter of Deeds: Wasltlngton Coun ty, Judge John W. Darden, of Plymouth; Tyrrell County, C. Earl Cohoon, of Columbia. W S CARAWAN I f ^ „ imb a i.s idem.fled witii t, . .acciit Ijii.M- nes.s of Tyno:! Cou:ii; iJiobabiv more ll'.an any oilier man and for many years liis name lias been mentioned in the roster of busi ness leaders of the town of Col umbia He also operated a boat line to Elizabeth City His wife. Mrs. Mae Carawan. in her own right i.i one of the mo.st promi nent women of Tyrrell County and has been active in civic affairs of Columbia and a leader m every sense of tiie word. Tyrrell Coun ty potatoes have become famous largely because of hts activities in Uie encouragement of planting, cultivating and marketing them. in meeting regularly because of The Columbia Hotel, founded by the late A. J Cohoon, has long been a popular stopping place for visitors to and from points in Tyr rell County. It boasts one of the most beautiful locations in Colum- ' bia There are 22 large and rest ful bedrooms, each with running I water, that overlook the quiet and ' restful reaches of the Scupper nong River where It flows by Col umbia Mrs. J. S. Tucker, the genial proprietess since last June 1, cat ers especially to the sportsmen and fishermen who come to this sec tion attracted by the rai-e hunt ing and sport fishing for which the woods and waters of Tyrrell .S'’? famous MAKING HIS MARK IN TVRRELl. COUNTY Single Copy 6c. TYRRELL SEES 25U LANDLESS FAMILIES BROUGHT BACK TO 11,000 LONG NEGECTED ACRES i ' Uncle Sam Carrying Out One of His Resetf^ tlenient Projects In Lake Phelps Section; A Great Activity In Columbia, Where Headquarters are Located m ^ A??oc*Ation, ^andteagped two .sqvyre winters and bad roads. 1 ad moved forward slowly but stcaddy with plans for an adver- I ti'crrent program for the South ern Albemarle country. It also has agreed upon a program of mds that will tend to develop the entire area and is devoted to the interests of the fisheries, farms and timber conservation of this section, as well. It is in a sense something like a chamber of commerce serving a district of four counties, who because of their isolation and be cause of their peculiar interests which arc much in common, have no opporunlty to -otherwise ex press their needs and hopes for Uncle Sam is busy these days taking worthy low-income and tenant farmers off worn-out farm land and resettling them on fer tile, more productive .acres. Ai» admirable job is now well under way over m Tj’rrell and WaslV-^ Ington counties where the Reset-' tlement Administration, operating under the U. S. Department of Agriculture, is giving hundreds of- ■■ farmers a new lease on life ,by' providing them with about 40“ acres of cleared land and about' 10 acres in woods together with a' comfortable farm dwelling and good out-buildings on which to make a fresh start. Out ncai Lake Phelps, just south of the town of Creswell. approxl— mately 11,000 acres of land re cently acquired by the Govern-, ment Ls now known as “Scupper-- nong Farms” and there about 200, I farm families, sick and tired of- , I trying to beat a lii'lng out of bar-" I ren. unproductive soil, are being resettled on rich, fertile aci'es in- H T (JACK* DAVENPORT is ^odel farm communities and plac- the Southern Albemarle’s young- | back on the high road to hap— ent county commissioner Tliis | pIpsss and profitable farming, up-and-coming young Columbia | So far the Government has ac— ’ business man who is part owner,qulred approximately 20,000 acres' of one of his town’s largest lum- j of land in both Tyrrell and 'Wash,-.’ ber mills is on the high road to' Ington counties which will, in becoming, one of Eastern North • time, provide home and farm- Carolina’s most successful and in- ' steads for about 250 families. The fluential citizens. Watch him! \ vast business of acquiring the ne]-' ’ cessai-y land, tracing Involved land development. 'Die delightful fea- i titles and drawing boundary lines- ture of, the Southern Albemarle has partially been completed ahfl meetings has been to rotate them, Ji'g 11,000- , “ „ . , acre tract on Lake Phelps known -'., each time from one county to as “Scuppernong Farms" is being another and making the entire ‘ planted in crops. • Southern Albemarle country ac-1 The Resettlement Admini^-ifSl quainted with itself as never be-j.tionfU^ purpose and*: lore. I (Continued'on Page ^ven>^-'2 J ‘i t t J ■ Yes Madam, TEXACO Service Awaits You in Tyrrell J? County The Efficient, Courteous Service of the Texaco Dealers is a By-Word Throughout the South ern Albemarle Country. Long Before Cars Came Into General Use, Texaco Products Were a Favorite With" the Boatmen and Fishermen of This Section. It is Our Aim to Provide a Service for Motorists Equal in Every Way to the Highest Texaco Standards. 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