The Town of Edenton, NC |
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Below: Caswell
County Confederate Soldier Monument, Yanceyville |
This monument, located in
front of the Caswell County Court House as a memorial to the county's
Confederate veterans, displays a Confederate soldier standing atop a
pedestal. He wears the Confederate uniform complete with hat and is
depicted as a man with high cheekbones, a full mustache, and a goatee.
Inscription: "TO / THE SONS OF CASWELL COUNTY / WHO SERVED IN
THE WAR OF 1861-1865 / IN ANSWER TO THE CALL OF THEIR COUNTRY IN WHATEVER
EVENT THAT MAY FACE / OUR NATIONAL EXISTENCE MAY GOD / GIVE US THE WILL
TO DO WHAT IS / RIGHT, THAT, LIKE OUR FOREFATHERS, / WE MAY IMPRESS
OUR TIME WITH THE / SINCERITY AND STEADFASTNESS / OF OUR LIVES."
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 The
Original Barker House was built about 1782, and expanded
during the 19th century. It is a 2 1/2-story frame dwelling with Georgian,
Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It sits on a brick
foundation and has a pair of single-shoulder exterior chimneys at both
ends of the brick foundation. The front facade features a full-length,
two-tier porch carried on superimposed fluted pillars under a shed roof.
The house commemorates the life of Penelope Barker of Edenton who
organized 51 ladies to sign a petition to King George III saying NO
to taxation on tea and cloth. Unlike the tea party at Boston, the women
at Edenton not only signed their names to the petition but sent it to
the King and caused British newspapers to decry the first political
demonstration by women in North America.
The Barker House serves as the Welcome Center for Edenton. It is owned,
preserved and opened seven days a week by the Edenton Historical Commission
and complements several sites of Historic Edenton. The Barker House
was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. |
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Below: View of The Barker House and the
tree island in Albermarle Sound - as seen from the Joseph Hewes Memorial
(shown a bit further down this page). |
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Below: Views from inside the Visitor
Center (Barker House) |
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Below: Several views of The Williamson
Monument |
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Below: A bridge (and then
a road) to a private club next to the Memorial Park shown above. |
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Note: The Edenton Cotton Mill Museum of
History was closed when the two RV Gypsies were here, so they were unable
to go inside. It is much bigger than the small portion of the building
shown below. |
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The
Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political
actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope
Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women
in Edenton, North Carolina. Together they formed an alliance wholeheartedly
supporting the American cause against “taxation without representation.”
- quoted from a brochure. |
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Below: It took the two RV Gypsies a long
time to find the tea pot because it was much smaller than they expected.
They actually drove by it several times before noticing it behind the
fence shown above.
This memorial marks the spot where the women of Edenton gathered in
1774 to protest the British tax on tea. The marker is a 250 pound cast
bronze teapot with an upright Revolutionary War era cannon serving as
the base. It is highly decorated. Featured prominently on one side (north)
is the scene from the Great Seal of North Carolina showing the figures
Liberty and Plenty in relief above the words North Carolina. On the
south facing side is the inscription - "ON THIS SPOT STOOD THE
RESIDENCE / OF MRS. ELIZABETH KING IN WHICH THE / LADIES OF EDENTON
MET OCT. 25, 1774 / TO PROTEST AGAINST THE TAX ON TEA" |
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