ADT-Monitored Home Security Service in Ahoskie, NC

Ahoskie is a town in Hertford County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,039 at the 2010 census. Ahoskie is located in North Carolina’s Inner Banks region. Its nickname is “The Only One” because no extra town in the world is known by the similar name. The etymology of the word Ahoskie, which was originally spelled “Ahotsky,” was from the Wyanoke Indians, who entered the Hertford County area at the coming on of European settlement.^{[citation needed]}

Ahoskie began as a railroad siding for log trains hauling timber from the forests of Bertie and Hertford counties to a sawmill at Tunis upon the Chowan and Southern Railroad line initiation in 1885. The town grew out of a loading station and commissaries to supply the community workers who cut, hauled and loaded the logs. Ahoskie’s post office was normal in 1889. The first passenger train passed through town on the newly opened tracks of the Norfolk and Carolina origin in 1890.  

By the period of its incorporation on January 24, 1893, Ahoskie had grown to add up several stores, a saw mill and gin, a one-room theoretical and a Baptist church. Other industries that flourished in the town’s forward days included an ice plant, a laundry operated by a drifting Chinese man, and a number of horse and mule exchanges and sales stables. Since few of the smaller towns in Hertford and Bertie counties were located upon passenger lines, traveling salesman or “drummers” would use the town as a base to make sales trips to outlying community stores by horse and buggy.