Timber borings dating to 1719 have made the house the oldest on record in North Carolina. It was built before the town became known as Edenton in 1722, when only about 20 homes dotted land along ...

The paper reported that the attraction was built circa 1719 in Chowan County and is the oldest house in the state. It’s one of several home that’s available for viewing as part of Edenton’s ...

“It is amazing just to be able to stand in a house that old,” said Reid Thomas, a restoration specialist with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Edenton will hold the 2015 ...

even though it would rank about 12th (the oldest is the Lane House in Edenton, built in about 1719). That’s because it has always been privately owned and far from the public eye, says Myrick ...

There, you can pick up a brochure for the town's museum trail, a walking tour of the most historic buildings and sites around Edenton. One of the stops is the 1758 Georgian Cupola House.

Visitors to historic Edenton already know about the "new" courthouse ... Virginia described it as basically being a common tobacco house,” Ipock said. “We know it actually didn't even have ...