Warren County Genealogy
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Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 19,972. Its county seat is Warrenton.
The county was formed in 1779 from the northern half of Bute County. It was named for Joseph Warren of Massachusetts, a physician and general in the American Revolutionary War who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
In 1881, parts of Warren County, Franklin County, and Granville County were combined to form Vance County.
Warren County was the home of Soul City, a “planned community”, which has not lived up to initial expectations.
Warren County was also the site of the Warren County PCB Landfill site beginning in 1982 and was involved in a long environmental justice struggle to remove dangerous pollutants from affecting the health of the citizens. The site was not safe until 2004.
Warren County has brought forth a remarkable number of notable politicians. North Carolina Governors James Turner, William Miller and Thomas Bragg all were born in or lived in Warren County. Nathaniel Macon, a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. senator, was from Warren, as were Senator Matt Ransom, Senator Benjamin Hawkins, Congressman John H. Kerr and Congresswoman Eva Clayton. Confederate General Braxton Bragg and his brother, Confederate Attorney General Thomas Bragg, were from Warrenton. Reynolds Price (1933 – ), professor emeritus of English at Duke University and considered one the South’s best contemporary authors and essayists, grew up in the village of Macon. United States Navy Admiral Kirkland Donald (1953 – ), the fifth Director of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, grew up in the village of Norlina.
Source: Wikipedia.
Warren County Genealogy Resources
Warren County NCGenWeb Archives
Warren County Historical Association
PO Box 441
Warrenton, NC 27589
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Warren County Government
Warren County, NC Government – Official Site
Warren County Register of Deeds
PO Box 506
109 S. Main St
Courthouse Square
Warrenton NC 27589
252-257-3265
Fax 252-257-1524
Warren County Memorial Library
119 South Front Street
Warrenton, NC 27589
Main: 252. 257. 4990
Fax: 252. 257. 4089
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Cities and Towns
* Macon
* Norlina
* Warrenton
Census
1790 Federal Census Transcription
1820 Federal Census Transcription – Partial Extract
Cemeteries
USGS listing of cemeteries in Warren County
Warren County Cemetery Transcriptions
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