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22-490: Ahoskie may refer to: Ahoskie, North Carolina Ahoskie (YTB-804) , a Natick -class large harbor tug in the service of the United States Navy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ahoskie . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

44-642: Is a town in Hertford County , North Carolina , United States. The population was 5,039 at the 2010 census . Ahoskie is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. Its nickname is "The Only One" because no other town in the world is known by the same name. The etymology of the word Ahoskie, which was originally spelled "Ahotsky", was from the Wyanoke Indians , who entered the Hertford County area at

66-512: Is deemed "significant". The term "old street" refers to a neighborhood with historic buildings. Many of these are tourist attractions and filled with hawkers catering to visitors. Many jurisdictions within the United States have specific legislation identifying and giving protection to designated historic districts. Criticism of historic districts in Chicago and elsewhere in the United States

88-408: Is primarily based on arguments that such laws creating such districts restrict the supply of affordable housing, and thus the result of such districts is that of enforcing caste structures and class divisions by region and segments of urban areas. Several historic districts have been proposed not for a true preservation purpose but to prevent development. The term "Historic District" is not used in

110-532: The Cultural Heritage Preservation Act    [ zh ] protects certain historic districts under the "groups of buildings" category. Districts are overseen by their respective municipality, city, or county governments, but can also be promoted to a "significant" status and overseen by the Ministry of Culture directly. As of July 2021, there are twenty protected districts, one of which

132-667: The New Ahoskie Baptist Church , was organized in 1866. Other early churches in the Black community were the Methodist Church and Calvary Baptist Church. The first charity organized in the Black community was Love and Charity, a mutual help group that met in members' homes under the slogan "Love to All, True to each Other, Mercy to all Mankind." Other early organizations included the Elks , Masons and Tents . The United Order of

154-563: The United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 4.35 square miles, all land. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 4,891 people, 1,895 households, and 1,044 families residing in the town. As of the census of 2010, there were 5,039 people, 2,062 households, and 1,263 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,169 inhabitants per square mile. There were 2,309 housing units at an average density of 536 per square mile. The racial makeup of

176-546: The National Register of Historic Places: the Ahoskie Historic District , Ahoskie Downtown Historic District , and East End Historic District ; and Ahoskie School , Roberts H. Jernigan House , King-Casper-Ward-Bazemore House , William Mitchell House , Mulberry Grove , and James Newsome House . The town has highlighted these resources to encourage heritage tourism. The county gave an acre of land on which

198-561: The Queens of the Orient had its origins in Ahoskie in 1923. By 1939, the town had grown to include a number of Black-owned businesses including five grocery stores, three barber shops, three cafes, a dry goods store, a millinery shop, three hairdressers, three seamstresses, a doctor, a stenographer, two funeral homes and a garage. The Atlantic District Fair Association represented the economic interests of

220-520: The beginning of European settlement. Ahoskie began as a railroad siding for log trains hauling timber from the forests of Bertie and Hertford counties to a sawmill at Tunis on the Chowan and Southern Railroad line beginning in 1885. The town grew out of a loading station and commissaries to supply the community workers who cut, hauled and loaded the logs. Ahoskie's post office was established in 1889. The first passenger train passed through town on

242-467: The city . They may be coterminous with the commercial district , administrative district , or arts district , or separate from all of these. Historical districts are often parts of a larger urban setting, but they can also be parts or all of small towns, or a rural areas with historic agriculture-related properties, or even a physically disconnected series of related structures throughout the region. Much criticism has arisen of historic districts and

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264-918: The effect protective zoning and historic designation status laws have on the housing supply. When an area of a city is designated as part of a 'historic district', new housing development is artificially restricted and the supply of new housing permanently capped in area so designated as 'historic'. Critics of historic districts argue that while these districts may offer an aesthetic or visually pleasing benefit, they increase inequality by restricting access to new and affordable housing for lower and middle class tenants and potential home owners. In Canada , such districts are called "heritage conservation districts" or "heritage conservation areas" (known as "arrondissements historiques", "secteurs de conservation du patrimoine" or "districts de conservation du patrimoine" in French ) and are governed by provincial legislation. In Taiwan ,

286-635: The first Black school in Ahoskie was built, three years after the Civil War . The one-room schoolhouse at Hayes Street and Catherine Creek Road remained about 35 years. The first teacher at the school was Van Butler, and the school term was four months. Through years of untiring efforts by the Black community , by 1939 the Ahoskie Graded School consisted of two brick buildings, with fourteen elementary teachers, five high school teachers and an enrollment of some 800 boys and girls. The first Black church,

308-417: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahoskie&oldid=932675664 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ahoskie, North Carolina Ahoskie ( ah- HOSS -kee / ɑː ˈ h ɒ s k i / )

330-454: The late 1990s, the town of Ahoskie donated a former elementary school to Shaw University , based in Raleigh. It established a Continuing and Professional Education (C.A.P.E.) center, to help improve and enhance the vocational and educational skills of individuals in lower-class communities in the surrounding area. Historic districts Historic districts may or may not also be the center of

352-498: The newly opened tracks of the Norfolk and Carolina line in 1890.   By the time of its incorporation on January 24, 1893, Ahoskie had grown to include several stores, a saw mill and gin, a one-room school and a Baptist church . Other industries that flourished in the town's early days included an ice plant, a laundry operated by a wandering Chinese man , and a number of horse and mule exchanges and sales stables . Since few of

374-560: The personal solicitation of a kinsman of the show's business manager. Electric lights were first turned on in Ahoskie around Christmas in 1915. The power was generated by a gasoline engine and within two years was providing electricity day and night. Ahoskie was the first stop in North Carolina for first lady Claudia Alta Johnson during her whistle-stop tour of the South aboard the Lady Bird Express, on October 6, 1964. According to

396-605: The smaller towns in Hertford and Bertie counties were located on passenger lines, traveling salesman or "drummers" would use the town as a base to make sales trips to outlying community stores by horse and buggy. The town's first bank, the Bank of Ahoskie , was chartered in 1905. This area's economy was initially based on the cultivation of tobacco and cotton . It has continued to be largely rural with small towns. The town has both historic districts and individual buildings listed on

418-522: The town was $ 17,648. About 19.8% of families and 26.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 36.8% of those under age 18 and 22.4% of those age 65 or over. Ahoskie is home to the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald newspaper. In nearby Cofield there is a steel rolling mill owned and operated by Nucor Steel. Roanoke-Chowan Community College is located just outside Ahoskie in Union. In

440-431: The town was 66.6% African American , 28.5% White , 1.50% Native American , 1.3% Asian , and 1.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.6% of the population. There were 2,062 households, out of which 20.9% had children under the age of 18, 43.0% were married couples living together, 25.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.8% were non-families. The average household size

462-543: The town's Black community. Perhaps the largest show seen in the town was a visit by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in October 1916, an event that drew an estimated 12,000 people and required three shows to accommodate everybody. The leading citizens of the town hosted a breakfast at the Manhattan hotel for Col. William F. Cody , who expressed his deep appreciation for the hospitality accorded to him. Cody's visit came about through

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484-457: Was 2.35 and the average family size was 3.01. The population ages were distributed with 28.1% under the age of 20, 5.7% from 20 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.5 years. The median income for a household in the town was $ 28,438, and the median income for a family was $ 37,833. Males had a median income of $ 36,711 versus $ 27,398 for females. The per capita income for

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