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==History== The county was formed in 1875 from [[New Hanover County, North Carolina|New Hanover County]]. It was named for [[William Dorsey Pender]] of [[Edgecombe County, North Carolina|Edgecombe County]], a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] general mortally wounded at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fccsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ixMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4950%2C433192 | title=Local history offers tasty tidbits | work=Star-News | date=April 17, 1983 | access-date=November 1, 2015 | author=Proffitt, Martie | pages=8C}}</ref> Pender County is located in the [[Cape Fear (region)|southeastern]] portion of the state and shares borders with [[Bladen County, North Carolina|Bladen]], [[Brunswick County, North Carolina|Brunswick]], [[Columbus County, North Carolina|Columbus]], [[Duplin County, North Carolina|Duplin]], [[New Hanover County, North Carolina|New Hanover]], [[Onslow County, North Carolina|Onslow]], and [[Sampson County, North Carolina|Sampson]] counties. The county's eastern border is the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The present land area is {{convert|870.76|sqmi|km2}} and the 2020 population was 60,203, doubling since 1990. The estimated county population in 2023 had increased to 68,521.<ref name="2020CensusQuickFacts"/> The county commissioners were ordered to hold their first meeting at Rocky Point. The act provided for the establishment of the town of Cowan as the county seat. In 1877, an act was passed repealing that section of the law relative to the town, and another law was enacted, whereby the qualified voters were to vote on the question of moving the county seat to South Washington or any other place which the majority of the voters designated. Whatever place was selected, the town should be called Stanford. In 1879, Stanford was changed to Burgaw, which was by that law incorporated. It is the county seat. A slave cemetery that was used by the community of Cardinal Acres up until {{Circa|1950}} was disturbed by a developer grading a site in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Simmonsy|first=Kassie|date=March 16, 2021|title=African American grave site disturbed by subdivision development|url=https://www.wect.com/2021/03/16/african-american-grave-site-disturbed-by-subdivision-development-project/|access-date=March 17, 2021|website=WECT|language=en-US}}</ref>
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