ELIZABETH

See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY  , a town, port of entry and the county-seat of Pasquotank county, North Carolina, U.S.A., on the Pasquotank river, at the head of navigation, 46 m . S. by E. of Norfolk, Virginia . Pop . (189o) 3251; (1900) 6348 (3164 negroes); (1910) 8412 . It is served by the Norfolk & Southern, and the Suffolk & Carolina railways, and is on the Dismal Swamp and Albemarle & Chesapeake canals . Elizabeth City is a winter meeting-place for hunters . It is the seat of a state normal school for negroes and of the Atlantic Collegiate Institute, is a trucking centre, has shipyards, and has a large wholesale trade in clothing, groceries and general merchandise; from it are shipped considerable quantities of fish, cotton and lumber . The town is the port of entry of the Albemarle customs district, but its foreign trade is unimportant . Among its manufactures are cotton goods, iron, lumber, nets and twine, bricks, and carriages and wagons . The oyster fisheries in the vicinity are of considerable importance . Elizabeth City was settled in 1793, and was first incorporated in the same year .