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Article: The easy life of Edenton
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- Southern Living
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Copyright informationCopyright Southern Progress Corporation Apr 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This comfortable, casual, and historic small town sits pretty on the coastal backwaters of Albemarle Sound.
Edenton, North Carolina, is a cozy little town living on the edge. Actually, it's on the watery edge of Albemarle Sound, tucked away from the Atlantic Ocean and sheltered by the Outer Banks, which lie about 60 miles east as the seagull flies.
You feel that romance of land and sea here, especially when you walk into the park set on a peninsula surrounded by Edenton Bay. There's no sandy transition from surf to turf-- just the water and terra firma.
Edenton, the state's second-oldest town, began in the late 1600s as a harbor town and was incorporated in 1722 as the first capital of ...
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