Food Trade

Located here at the foot of the Pamlico-Tar Bridge where Take 2 Computer Service is today, was a small settlement of enslaved people who gained financial freedom as well as personal freedom after the war via their culinary skills.

Much of what we know about life in Washington during the Civil War comes from the oral histories passed down generation to generation... 

African American History
  1. Elmwood Plantation
  2. Stewart Ellison
  3. Hull Anderson
  4. John Small
  5. Food Trade
  6. Fowle House
  7. Bird's Nest
  8. Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum
  9. A Love Story
  10. Washington Barber
  11. Brown's Opera House
  12. More Information