{"id":237,"date":"2019-08-05T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=237"},"modified":"2019-11-13T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:07:58","slug":"pasquotank","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/pasquotank\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasquotank County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pasquotank County, established as a British precinct on Jan. 16, 1670, and as a county on March 6, 1739, is located on the Albemarle Sound about 165 miles northeast of Raleigh. North Carolina&#8217;s fifth smallest county by land area, it has a population of 39,743 and a total employment of 15,813 (39.8%).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county seat is Elizabeth City, the largest town, cultural hub and educational center of the 16-county Albemarle Historic region. The town is named for Betsy Tooley, a local tavern owner who donated most of the land for the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is grains, while the largest product by acreage is soybeans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By total number, the largest livestock produced is cattle and calves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest manufacturer is JW Jones Lumber, the 21st largest employer, which manufactures lumber products. It ranks No. 21 among all the county&#8217;s employers with approximately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The area is served by Elizabeth City State University, a historically black college that is the smallest of the 17 institutions with NC State in the University of North Carolina system. The College of the Albemarle is the oldest of the 58 institutions in the North Carolina Community College System. Private Mid-Atlantic Christian University opened in 1948 in downtown Elizabeth City. The three schools share dual-enrollment agreements with each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-237","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/237\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}