Come see Edenton and Chowan County for yourself; the very best research you can do.  If you want some clues about what’s going on, places to stay, where to eat, check out this Edenton and Chowan County travel information site.

Find Your New Home  for Weekends or Retirement

Prefer to do your own research to find property listings?  Call one of the local experts: CarolinaEast Real Estate or Perry & Co’s Sothebys International Realty.  Or, check out Realtor.com and Zillow  both have listing for the area.  Don’t pay too much attention to Zillow’s Zestimates® because Edenton is too small a town for their system to work reliably.

To get a feel for Edenton, you have to feel the important things:

• Remember when you were a kid and the neighborhood drug store/pharmacy had a soda fountain with hand scooped ice cream? We have that pharmacy downtown plus a good ole Soda Shoppe with great lunches.
• We have a fourth of July celebration with a band concert, parade and a fireworks display (courtesy of the Optimists Club with citizen’s donations). The fireworks can be viewed from the waterfront, in your boat in Edenton Bay or maybe from your front porch.  If Norman Rockwell was alive today, he would sketch that scene of our small town’s celebration on the 4th of July.
• Our houses of worship regularly join with one another to present seminars, charitable events and more. You’ve never seen such inter-faith cooperation.
• Driving the streets of Edenton harks back to the 50’s where courtesy and friendliness were the rule of the road.  Ever now and then we have two or three cars lined up for a stop light.  We always have people stopping in the middle of downtown Braod Street to allow pedestrians to cross.
• Remember party-line telephones, well we don’t have any of those.  Instead we have multiple suppliers of high speed Internet and all of the ways you might want to connect to the world.
• Canadian Study reports folks are happier in small rural towns.  Folks in Edenton will tell you it is equally true of our small rural town. Come see for yourself or read the story.

We Don’t Pay People to Move to Edenton

Did you see the interesting article in the Wall Street Journal?  It reports on cities and towns paying people to move and live there. “We don’t pay people to move here!” said retiree Bob Quinn.

He added: “Where else can you find multiple choices of 3,000+ sq. ft. historic homes within walking distance of downtown, near Edenton’s beautiful waterfront, (etc., etc.), at a price half of the rest of the national market average.

If you don’t need a job come here!  If you need a job, come here even faster.  Bring your business, work from home, be creative!  Live well.  Live cheaply in the home you never thought you could afford and they are not all historic. Low taxes and still close to the rest of the world!  Heavy traffic and congestion is only an hour away (if you must have it).  DC and such just far enough away to not affect your life!  But, within easy driving distance when needed. Weather you can love 80% of the time. Where 4 cars in a row is considered a traffic jam!

Save on home cost and buy a boat!  Save money to travel the world anywhere you choose.  Meet neighbors; enjoy a hand wave from passersby.  Join in making things happen, learn gardening, floral design or play golf, learn bridge.  Meet great people, join and volunteer with historic non- profits, do something meaningful in your old age.  Make your friends envious; show them pictures of where you chose to live!  Make the right decision, get off your butt and come see what I am talking about.  You deserve it.

Damn it, do it!”

Edenton per Boom Magazine

Wonder what it is like to visit Edenton? Here is a comprehensive report from Boom Magazine, written by Greg Petty, in just two pages. (Use > arrows to the right of the picture to navigate to page 8.)

Soul Food N’ Sunsets

This well known blog about life in the South posted a neat review of Edenton, featuring the biannual Pilgrimage of Historic Homes and Gardens. See it here.