Wayne County, NC - Everettsville Village

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A way back in the late forties and fifties there was quite a little 
village at Everettsville, six miles south of Goldsboro, on the A.C.L.
railroad. My recollection is that there was a dozen or more families
there and it was a tony place. 

I expect it contained as much wealth as any village of its size in
North Carolina in those days. Among those who resided there, I can
recollect the following families: G.W. Collier, John Everett, D.B.
Everett, Wm. Carraway, John Becton, Wm. Hollowell, Curtis Hooks, J.C.
Slocumb, and John West. All men of wealth, they had a flourshing school,
but along about '59 or '60, they began to break up and move away, and
there is nothing there now to remind one of the place except deep sand.

And about the same time Everettsville was flourishing, there was quite
a large merchantile business carried on at White Hall (Seven Springs.) 
These were about the only two places in the county, outside the county 
seat, that were of much prominence. Mt. Olive, and Nahunta, (now Fremont), 
each had a small store or two, but did not do much business.

Just before the war, A. J. Finlayson ran a turpentine distillery and 
store at Scottsville, three miles north of Goldsboro and Willoughby
Gardner had a store and distillery at Saulston. 

Council Best, Jack Coley, G. W. Collier, W. K. Lane, John and David 
Everett were probably the largest farmers and were considered the 
wealthiest men in the county.

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