Burgaw, North Carolina

Pender County

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Burgaw is a small town in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the administrative seat of Pender County.

History

In the area of ​​today's town existed before its establishment, only a small trading post at an intersection. Burgaw originated as a railroad town, whose early development is founded on the work of the Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad Company. The railway company was later renamed the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

In October 1836, the work on the railway line between Raleigh and Wilmington began. At the time of its completion on March 7, 1840 it was 260 km, the longest railway in the world.

First name of the place was Cypress Grove. Since January 1854 called the United States Post Office Department it Burgaw Depot. The depot is the oldest in North Carolina. In the Civil War it had a certain importance as a supply station of the Confederate States Army. It was burned down in part from the cavalry of the northern states. Loss in Fort Fisher and Wilmington in 1865 prompted the commander of the Army of the Confederate States to set up a headquarters in Burgaw Depot. The station was in February 1865 for a week as a POW camp until the negotiations on a prisoner exchange had been completed.

Pender County was split off in February 1875 by New Hanover County and was the last of the 100 counties in North Carolina. On February 6, 1876, the administrative unit of the railway company land for the construction of the city with Courthouse received. About three years later, on 25 February 1879 Burgaw Depot was municipal law to a municipality ( Town). On December 8th the same year the name of Burgaw Depot in Burgaw was changed.

The city has today with the Pender Memorial Hospital over a hospital and several educational institutions. The latter include the Burgaw Elementary School, the Burgaw Middle School, the. Pender High School and a branch of the Cape Fear Community College

Since 1978, takes place every year the Spring Festival ( Spring Festival ). The Blueberry Festival since 2004 has been the second major annual event in Burgaw.

Population

At the 2000 census lived in Burgaw 3337 people in 954 households and 649 families. The racial sits down the population of 51.21 % White, 44.89 % African American, 0.69 % Native Americans, 0.12% Asian Americans, as well as other smaller or more groups. 4.50 percent of the population regard themselves as Hispanics.

In 33.9 % of the 954 households living children under the age of 18, 42.7 % live in married couples, 22.2 % live in single women and 31.9 % are non family households. 28.6 % of all households were made up of individuals and 13.2% had someone living alone over 65 years. The average household size is 2.39, the families of 2.93. The median age in question is 37.

Personalities

• Graham Arthur Barden (1896-1967), politician
• O'Bryan ( b. 1961 ), singer