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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Edenhouse (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Edenhouse. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Edenhouse ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

Edenhouse has also been known as: Eden House Point, Eden House and Edenhouse Point.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Edenhouse is located in Bertie County.

To see how the shape of North Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bertie County: Chowan, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Northampton & Washington.

Below are the counties that are near Edenhouse. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Edenhouse:

  • Bertie County     (The home county of Edenhouse)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Edenhouse, with the one closest to Edenhouse listed first.
    • Avoca
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Ashland
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Merry Hill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Merry Hill is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merry Hill
    • Colerain
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Askewville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Askewville is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Askewville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
    • Windsor
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Powellsville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Powellsville is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 239 people
    • Drew
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Hexlena
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Aulander
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Aulander is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aulander
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 763 people
    • Lewiston Woodville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Lewiston Woodville is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewiston Woodville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 473 people
    • Kelford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Kelford is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
  • Beaufort County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Edenhouse, with the one closest to Edenhouse listed first.
    • Union Grove
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Union Grove is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Grove
    • Pungo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Gaylord
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Gaylord is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaylord
  • Chowan County
  • Gates County
  • Hertford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Edenhouse, with the one closest to Edenhouse listed first.
    • Harrellsville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Harrellsville is located in Hertford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrellsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 95 people
    • Ahoskie
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Earleys
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Cofield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Cofield is located in Hertford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cofield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 363 people
    • Poor Town
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Poor Town is located in Hertford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poor Town
    • South Tunis
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • South Tunis is located in Hertford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Tunis
    • Tunis
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Tuscarora Beach
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Winton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Martin County
  • Pasquotank County
  • Perquimans County
  • Tyrrell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Edenhouse, with the one closest to Edenhouse listed first.
    • Columbia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • New Lands
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Washington County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Edenhouse, see our County-by-County Page for Edenhouse.

Cemeteries Near Edenhouse ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Edenhouse.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Edenhouse - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Edenhouse covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Edenhouse, with the one closest to Edenhouse listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

While we didn't find Edenhouse in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Edenhouse.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Edenhouse, with the one closest to Edenhouse listed first.

  • Avoca
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Edenton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Mount Gould
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Gould is located in Bertie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Gould
  • Rockyhock
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Rockyhock is located in Chowan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockyhock
  • Sans Souci
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Sans Souci is located in Bertie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Souci
  • Cisco
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Cisco is located in Chowan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cisco
  • Colerain
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Skinnersville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Plymouth
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Roper
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Roper is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roper
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 533 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roper <1>
  • Yeopim Station
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Rosemead
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Rosemead is located in Bertie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosemead
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Edenhouse. See our List of 1890's Communities around Edenhouse.

Newspapers Published in Edenhouse ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Edenhouse.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Edenhouse, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Edenhouse.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Edenhouse:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Edenhouse, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Edenhouse) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.