Pates, North Carolina

Pates is located in western Robeson County.[2] According to historian William McKee Evans, it was preceded by a village known as Eureka.[3] The community of Pates was established around 1880 by Russell W. Livermore, who settled on the land of a dead friend.[4] It was named for a railway worker, Ed Pates. The community was incorporated in 1883, though in time its municipal government became inactive.[2] By 1884 the town hosted a railway station and approximately 100 inhabitants.[4] In 1887 the Croatan Normal School was founded, and its first buildings were established in Pates. The institution later moved to Pembroke.[5]

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• Powell, William S. (1976). The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807812471.