Volume X
Number 10
August 8
1942
THE STATE
A Weekly Survey of North Carolina
Entered u weOBd-cliM June I. 1093. .1 the FoMcfflce »t Re'.elfb, North Carotin». under the Act of March 3. 1H7P.
County of Currituck
Plenty of fertile land
and plenty of water. A
fine truek farming sec¬
tion and ideal for hunt¬
ing. fishing anti muskrat
trapping.
SLIGO i* in Currituck County.
There's been si lot of specula¬
tion about the origin of the name.
You see, the place is located at the
junction of two highways — one goes
to Norfolk. Vn.. and the other goes
down through Currituck to Point
Harbor. The popular story about the
name of Sligo is that when people
camp to the junction they’d be doubt¬
ful about which road to follow and
they’d ask themselves: “S’l 1 go this
way. or s’l I go that wav?” And so
they named the place Sligo.
Dudley Rngley, of Currituck, who
is now 'chief assistant to Lindsay
Warren, up in Washington. 1). C.,
says that the above story is unau¬
thenticated. His personal belief is that
it was named by a home-sick Irish¬
man after a town of the same name in
Ireland.
CfRKlTUOK is in the extreme north¬
eastern part of the stale. It was one
of the early precincts of Carolina in
1729, when the Lords Proprietors
surrendered their rights to the Eng-
iish Crown. The county was named
for a small tribe of Potcskoit Indians.
There are more different ways of
spelling Currituck than there are of
spelling the name of any county in
the state. For example, here’s a Hat
compiled from the Colonial Records:
CORATCCK
CORRATUCK
CURRATUOK
OARRAHTirCK
COROTUCK
CARA 1 1 TUCK
CCRUTCCKE
CARROT UCK
CURRYTUOK
COURATUCK
CARATANK
CARATUCK
CORA
ТОКЕ
CURATCCK
The house in which Governor Thomas Jarvis was born. It is located
in the lower part of Currituck County.
Now then, if you study that list
for a while, darned if you won't get
so mixed up that you can’t spell
Currituck correctly to save your life.
Ckt out your map of North Caro¬
lina and look at Currituck. You’ll
observe that there are three major
divisions. The first division might be
termed the mainland and is divided
into Upper Currituck and Lower Cur¬
rituck by the Inland Waterway. The
lower part, therefore, is actually a
large island. At the northern end of
Currituck Sound is Knott's Island,
where there are a number of small
farms and where the people live a
simple, contented and easy-going life.
Adjacent to it is Mackey's Island,
whore Joseph Knapp, wealthy New
Yorker, has a beautiful homo. Mr.
Knapp, incidentally, has done more
for the educational and civic advance¬
ment of Currituck County as a whole
than imy other living man. For year»
he has been keenly interested in the
welfare of that section of the state
and has spent large sums of money
for various improvements. And then,
on the eastern edge of Currituck
Sound we have the banks, running
down from the Virginia lino and
connecting up with Kill Devil. Nags
Head and other places in Dare
County. Corolla, located near Whale
Head lighthouse, is the homo of Ray
Adams, of Washington. I). C. It’' a
palatial structure and. as we recall,
has around eighteen bedrooms in it.
Many other people from outside the
«tale have homes in various part* of
Currituck. In the summer there's ex¬
cellent fishing of all kinds, and in the
winter there’s the finest hunting to be
found anywhere along the eastern
seaboard.
W'\in: Mark, of Elizabeth City,
formerly of Raleigh, made the trip
with us through Currituck. Chester
Morris, of Currituck, solicitor of the
First Judicial District, and Dudley
