When was whiteville nc founded

Therefore, it can be reasonably concluded that these men were from present-day Columbus County. Whiteville and Fair Bluff probably divide honors as the oldest towns in Columbus County. Originally known as White's Crossing, the town was laid out in on James B.

White's land, and after he served as the first state senator from the county the name was changed to Whiteville and it was named the county seat. The town was chartered in , and J. Navigation menu Personal tools English. Namespaces Page Talk.

Views Read View source View history. Submit Wiki Content Report a Problem. County Facts. County seat:. December 15, Parent County s :. Bladen , Brunswick [1]. Neighboring Counties. Location Map. Adopt-a-wiki page. General compliance by Cemeteries of Columbus County, North Carolina online and in print. Tombstone Transcriptions Online. For an annotated history of the county's formation, with the laws affecting the county, boundary lines and changes, and other origin information, visit these references in The Formation of the North Carolina Counties Corbitt, , available online at North Carolina Digital Collections note, there may be additional items of interest for the county not listed here :.

Corbitt, David Leroy. The formation of the North Carolina counties, Rudersdorf, Amy. The museum of forestry no longer exists.

Comments are not published until reviewed by NCpedia editors at the State Library of NC , and the editors reserve the right to not publish any comment submitted that is considered inappropriate for this resource. NCpedia will not publish personal contact information in comments, questions, or responses. If you would like a reply by email, note that some email servers, such as public school accounts, are blocked from accepting messages from outside email servers or domains. Residents of Whiteville reported hearing the guns fired at Fort Fisher in Tales of looting and destruction, by marauders from Sherman's army, have been handed down for years.

Better roads and communications in the early decades of the twentieth century changed Whiteville from an agricultural community to a growing town. Columbus Court House was granted a U.