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Pettigrew State Park is a North Carolina State Park in Tyrrell and Washington Counties, North Carolina in the United States. It covers 5,951 acres (24.08 km 2 ) [ 2 ] around the shore lines of Lake Phelps and the Scuppernong River .
In Pettigrew State Park 35°47′15″N 76°24′20″W / 35.7875°N 76.405556°W / 35.7875; -76.405556 ( Somerset Place State Historic Creswell
This land eventually was leased and then deeded to North Carolina for the creation of Pettigrew State Park in 1947. [5] The procurement of this land to the state led to many preservation events as in 1963 the 12,000 acre Pungo National Wildlife Refuge was established and in 1967 Somerset Place was established as a Historical Landmark.
Lake Phelps is 16,000 acres and is part of Pettigrew State Park in Creswell. Somerset Place is a restored antebellum plantation and NC Historic Site on Lake Phelps. [4] The Pungo Unit of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the southern part of the county is said to have the best public black bear viewing in North Carolina.
Somerset Place is a former plantation near Creswell in Washington County, North Carolina, along the northern shore of Lake Phelps, and now a State Historic Site that belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Somerset Place operated as a plantation from 1785 until 1865.
Lake Phelps is North Carolina's second largest natural lake. It has a surface area of 16,600 acres (67 km 2), [2] and is located primarily in Washington County on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula between the Albemarle Sound and the Pamlico Sound.
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Pettigrew Home & Museum, a historic house museum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Pettigrew House, a historic house in Palo Alto, California; Pettigrew School, a historic school in Pettigrew, Arkansas; Pettigrew State Park, a state park in North Carolina; Pettigrew Wildlife Management Area, a protected area in Virginia