Editing Sneads Ferry, North Carolina (section)

==History==
In 1728, Edmund Ennett established a [[ferry]] on the banks of the New River. Some of Ennett's descendants still reside in the area. Originally called "Ennett's Ferry," it became a key element in the [[Post road]] linking [[Suffolk, Virginia]] with [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. By 1759, two ferries operated there, one from each bank of [[New River (eastern North Carolina)|New River]]. Robert Snead was the proprietor of the ferry on the north shore, so the community that developed on the banks of the crossing site became known as "Sneads Ferry." Caroline Pearson propelled the ferry until it was replaced with a bridge in 1939. The village is heavily dependent on the seafood industry. The village annually catches over 385 tons of [[shrimp]], 25 tons of [[flounder]], and approximately 493 tons of other seafood like [[clams]], [[scallops]], [[oysters]], [[Flathead mullet|mullet]], [[Spot croaker|spot]], [[grouper]], soft shell and hard shell [[crabs]], [[Black sea bass|sea bass]], and more.<ref>[http://www.sneadsferrynorthcarolina.com/index.html Welcome to Sneads Ferry North Carolina<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061105223106/http://www.sneadsferrynorthcarolina.com/index.html |date=2006-11-05 }}</ref> The town holds an annual Shrimp Festival to honor the local seafood industry.<ref>[http://sneadsferryshrimpfestival.com/ Welcome to the Sneads Ferry Shrimp Festival Website<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

The [[Yopps Meeting House]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1999.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>