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| 1767 Chowan County Courthouse |
Our original itinerary had us checking into the Hampton Inn at 3:30pm and free time until reboarding the bus at 4:45pm for the drive into
Edenton and a 5pm social at the
1767 Chowan County Courthouse. Since we left the
Newbold-White House at 4pm, we drove directly to Edenton's courthouse for the social. They were ready for us with drinks, snacks and speakers.
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| Clay in 1767 courthouse chief judge's seat |
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| Debbie & the teapot on a Revolutionary War cannon |
After the social, we were free to find dinner on our own walking Edenton's Broad Street. We were encouraged to head out and shop first, but we only found 2 stores open and we didn't need anything. Since we had a very late lunch followed by hors d'oeuvres here we weren't ready for dinner yet. We walked down the green before the courthouse down to the water first. We watched the Belle of Washington arrive. Somehow, we didn't remember seeing "
the teapot" from our previous visit here. Even knowing where to look for it this time we walked by without spotting it on the way down and had to walk back up.
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| Belle of Washington sailing into Edenton, NC |
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| Bob with Clay's beer |
We ended up eating at
309 Bistro. The first place we looked at eating had a line waiting. We walked further up the street and found a similar menu at 309 Bistro and went in. She had 3 2-top tables left! We took one in the back out of the sun. We considered this our 33rd Anniversary dinner since we didn't really have dinner on the 10th. It was very good and reasonably priced. We first thought we'd ordered too many fries, but they were very crispy double-fried fries and we loved them. We were both happy not to have to share!
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| Clay's fried flounder |
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| My steak and fries |
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| Cupola House |
The first bus shuttling back to the Hampton Inn was at 8pm so we had some time to kill. We walked down to the waterfront. Along the way, we admired the
Cupola House. We saw the
River Lighthouse, where we'll get lunch tomorrow. I think almost everyone took the 8pm bus back as it was standing room. I don't know whether they had to run the 9pm shuttle or not. I can tell you that we were probably asleep at 9pm given the long day!
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| Edenton's 1886 River Lighthouse |
Tomorrow we can sleep in a bit. We'll have the Hampton Inn's lobby breakfast and catch the 9am shuttle into Edenton for our 9:30am private home tour of
Beverly Hall with
Sambo Dixon.
