This important district is the current site of the area’s premier institution of higher learning, Elizabeth City State University.

The Main Street Residential District is a pleasant area to walk and explore.

Founded in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cemetery is the resting place for generations of local African American families, including dozens of Black veterans of the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War, as well as the founding families of the Elizabeth City State Normal School (now Elizabeth City State University).