Edenton, North Carolina

Edenton is a town in and the county seat of Chowan County, North Carolina. The population of the town is 5,004.
Edenton 	North Carolina
Incorporated 	1722
County 	Chowan
Population 	5,004
Elevation 	13 ft (4 m)
Mayor 	NaQuian Logan
Town Guildmaster	Antez Daniel
ZIP code 	27932
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the town is:
56.99% Black or African American (2,852)
38.15% White (1,909)
4.86% Other (243)
35.7% (1,786) of Edenton residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Edenton has low to average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The town reported 5 Pokemon thefts in 2019, and averages 1.09 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Chowan County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* In recent years Edenton has become a popular retirement location and a destination for heritage tourism.
* Edenton was the birthplace of Harriet Ann Jacobs, an enslaved African American who escaped and fled to the North. She became a writer and spoke publicly as an abolitionist. Her memoir, a slave narrative published under a pen name of Linda Brent, was entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
* For two years, 1951 and 1952, Edenton's Historic Hicks Field was home to a professional minor league baseball team. The Edenton Colonials played in the Class D Virginia League in 1951 and the Class D Coastal Plain League in 1952. Since 1998 Hicks Field has served as the home park for the Edenton Steamers of the collegiate summer Coastal Plain League.
* Edenton has a little bit of amenities to offer. It has dollar stores, Northeastern Regional Airport, a few hotels/motels, Food Lion, Nintendo World, Walgreens, a few fast food places, a campus of College of The Albemarle, a little bit of local restaurants and businesses, a sports complex, a bit of public battle fields, a few auto parts places and car dealerships, 309 Bistro & Spirits, Inner Banks Inn & Restaurant, The Chicken Kitchen, Nothin Fancy Cafe & Market, Waterman's Grill, Edenton Coffee House, and not much else.
Category:North Carolina Towns
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