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"Beaufort County's seat is renowned as the "Original Washington," since it was the first city named in honor of General George Washington. Prior to 1776, it was called "Forks of Tar River," appropriately so, since the Pamlico River becomes the Tar River west of the city.

Of the local communities, Washington is second in age only to nearby Bath, and is perhaps the first city erected in America after the collapse of the British government in North Carolina.

There appears to have been life on the banks of the Pamlico River at least one hundred years prior, when a Welsh missionary named Morgan Jones wrote of an encounter with a group of Indians described to have fair complexions and red hair. Speculation has it that these were descendants of a band of Welsh led by a prince, Madoc (or Madog) ab Owain Gwynedd, in 1170.

Incorporated in 1782, (after a first attempt in 1771 never gained approval), Washington had long since been a thriving center of commerce, established "for the speedy decision of mercantile transactions with foreign and transient persons."

One of the first buildings build in the city was Mulberry Tavern, and for more than half a century it provided food and drink for the seaman whose ships docked nearby, and lodging for plantation owners and others in town on business.

Union forces occupied Washington in 1862, and it, along with Plymouth in Washington County, suffered more Civil War destruction than any other North Carolina town. Upon evacuation of the town by Union soldiers in 1864, the town was burned. Rebuilt, it suffered subsequent disastrous fires as the wooden houses fell prey to open fireplaces and wood-burning stoves. In 1900, another fire destroyed much of the commercial section, but it was again rebuilt, becoming a thriving rail and river city."

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