Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-10-18

| ICli OF counties names once
sllone which have disappeared
forever.
Like the lost pleiad
Seen no more below"
In 1865 the country on both
sides of Albemarle sound was
erected into Albernarle county,
and that on the West bank of
Cape Fear into Clarendon county.
About 1000 both sides of Panli>
co river was erected into Bath
county. These three, Albe>
marie, Bath and Clarendon were
thus the a. B. c. Of North Caro-
lima history. III 1871, the coun-
try North Of Albenarle Sound
was divided into Carteret. Berk-
ley ai.d SilaitesDury precincts.
IL 1888 Carterct WAS changed to
Curritncll, Berkeley became Pas
GHo'"'sk and Perquimans, and
oI!2ite5burv vas renamed
- oWan. l.. wee another pre-
Cinct further South was named
Car.cret. which in 1929 became
tnc present Carteret county.
Bath county was divided into
Nickhan, PanticOugh an d
.Archdale precincts. III I736 af~
ter tlc government was traus-
fetred by the Lor,!s ;roprietors
to the King. the precincts be-
came counties, the names Of the
last three above mentioned being
changed, and the counties of
Albemarle, Bath and Clarendon
abolished. Thus as early as 1885
three counties had been abolish1
ed and the names of six precincts
embryonic cOunties) had been
altered-a total of nine. Since
then seven county names have
disappeared as follows: Bladen
county was at first Pelham. In
1879 Butte, named after the I'M
popular Earl of Butte, was abol-
ished and its territory divided
Into two new counties named af-
ter the patriots Franklin and
Warren. III the same year, the
county which bore the name of
the royal Governor TryOn was
divided and the new counties
were named III honor of Generals
Lincoln and Rutherford. Each
of these has since been subdivlded
Dobbs county, named after an
other royal Governor, retained
its name till 1884, after the rev.
olution, when it was divided i'll
to Lenoir and Glasgow. john
ston and Martin, though they al
so bore tn, names of royal Gov
ernors, continue to do SO to this
day, probably because We had
Republican Governors WHO were
named Martin and Johnston.
Glasgow named after the Secre-
tary of State, upon the discovery
Of frauds perpetrated by him
against the State, was changed
to Greene i'll 1899. In 1884
Cumberland county, named tor
the bloody victor of Culloden,
was changed to Fayette county,
but it Was changed back to Cum
berland by the next Legislature.
In 1916 Polk county was created.
IN iS48 it was abolished. After
seven years it was again re>es-
tablished in 1855. In the case
of Mill VS.. Williams. 33 N. {.
Reports. the Supreme court at
;irlnci tllc p3wer Of the legi5la-
tuyc 10 abolish any county at its
pleasure. Thus sixteen county
names have disappeared, Carteret
Berkl,y, Shaftesbury, Palnptl-
cough. Wickhan, Archdale. ALI
benlarle, Bath, Clarendon, Pel>
ham, Butte, Tryon, Fayette,
Dobbs, Glasgow and POLK. Car
teret was afterward beGtcWed on
another county, and Polk after
an eclipse was re-established.
AS to merely verbal, or literal,
changes Duplin named after Wis
count. Duplin, has in the frlc-
ton of the years lost one of its
"p's;" Edgecombe, named after
the Earl of Mt. Edgecumb has
materially changed its orthogra-
ply; Surry named after Surry
county in England and Forsyth
which was named for Col. Ben
iamin Forsythe, who fell in Cam
ada in 1914, have both lost an
"e" in rolling down the years;
and Cleveland, named for Col.
BENJAMIN Cleveland, one of the
heroes OF Kings Mountain, has
by legislature enactment lost the
ga"
Among the numerous changes
in the names of towns may be