Topics Related to Wayne County

First seat of Wayne County, incorporated 1787. The town died after the county seat was moved to Goldsboro in 1850. Site is here.

Governor, 1901-1905. Crusader for public education. Birthplace stands 2/3 mi. east.

On January 2, 1926, the Mt. Olive Pickle Company was formally incorporated by local business people in Wayne County.The effort to start the company arose within the community, and the original group of 13 local shareholders invested $19,500 to establish a company to pack and sell pickles.

Perhaps North Carolina’s best known woman suffrage leader, Gertrude Weil came from a long line of social, religious and political activists. Educated at Smith College, she returned to her native Goldsboro and involved herself in several associations, becoming a protégé of women’s rights advocate