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10/29/2026

You’re Invited!!

10/25/2026

10/24/2026

The Roanoke Chowan Consistory 276, Roanoke Chowan Assembly is hosting their Annual Fellowship Banquet. Please tap on the flyer to expand for the additional details.

10/24/2026

Join us on November 8, 2026 as we honor a Wonderful Woman of God as she steps into her role as Steward Pro-tem Emeritus

10/17/2026

Community Health Fair October 17,2026
Northampton County Health Department

10/06/2026

🪨 North Carolina's Roanoke River was blocked by rapids at Weldon, so men dug and built about nine miles of stone-lined canal to get around them.

📜 The Roanoke Navigation Company was chartered by North Carolina in 1812, with Virginia's approval coming in 1815. Most of the construction happened between 1819 and 1823, though state highway markers say the canal was "completed 1834." The Halifax brochure states that the company "used slave labor and hired others." A WRAL report says the aqueduct was "built by enslaved men, men who seldom have their stories told or remembered in modern history books." WRAL also quoted: "You can touch it. You can put your hands where they put their hands."

🚂 In 1835 the canal carried 6,877 hogsheads of to***co and 10,646 barrels of flour. But the Petersburg Railroad reached Weldon in 1833, and traffic fell sharply by 1840. Even so, NCpedia says the company was one of only three such public improvement companies in North Carolina that ever returned money to investors, paying 57.25 percent of stock prices in dividends.

⚡ In 1885 investors formed the Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Company, and by 1892 the canal supplied the first electric power to Weldon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1976, and in 2015 it was approved for the National Park Service's Network to Freedom, the Underground Railroad program.

A canal that lost to the railroad, then found a second life as a power source.

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1000 S. Main Street, Rich Square
Rich Square, NC
27869

Website

http://www.willowoakame.com/

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