Pates is a community in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.[1]
History
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Pates is located in western Robeson County.[2] According to historian William McKee Evans, it was preceded by a village known as Eureka.[3] The community of Pates was established around 1880 by Russell W. Livermore, who settled on the land of a dead friend.[4] It was named for a railway worker, Ed Pates. The community was incorporated in 1883, though in time its municipal government became inactive.[2] By 1884 the town hosted a railway station and approximately 100 inhabitants.[4] In 1887 the Croatan Normal School was founded, and its first buildings were established in Pates. The institution later moved to Pembroke.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Pates". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
- ^ a b Powell, William S. (1976). The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 373. ISBN 9780807812471. OCLC 733691912.
- ^ Evans, William McKee (2015). To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction (reprint ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780815603061.
- ^ a b Dial, Adolph L.; Eliades, David K. (1996). The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians (1st ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-8156-0360-3.
- ^ Locklear, Lawrence T. "UNCP's Founders". University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Retrieved November 1, 2021.