T.J. Bland’s Store
(Chowan County)
Featured Character – The Home Front
Soldiers of the 45th Massachusetts Stealing Pigs in Eastern North Carolina
Courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Pasquotank and surrounding counties saw numerous raids and burnings during January 1863. T.J. Bland’s store in Chowan County was a location of constant theft. It was robbed and “2000 dollars worth of goods” was stolen. According to tradition, the local Buffaloes found the missing merchandise in a house next to the store and claimed that citizens of the town were committing the robberies.