ELIZABETH CITY, a city of North Carolina, U.S.A., 46m. S. of Norfolk, at the head of navigation on the Pasquotank river; a port of entry and the county seat of Pasquotank county. It is on Federal highway 17, and is served by the Norfolk South ern railroad and by steamers through the Dismal Swamp and the Albemarle and Chesapeake canals. The population was 8,925 in 1920 (39% negroes) and was 10,037 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is the commercial centre of the north-eastern part of the State; the shipping point for quantities of market-garden produce ; a rendezvous for hunters and fishermen ; the seat of a State normal school for negroes; and has shipyards, hosiery and cotton mills, and various other manufacturing industries. The city was founded and incorporated in • It has a council-manager form of gov ernment. On Roanoke island, 45m. S.E., the followers of Sir Walter Raleigh landed in 1584 and Virginia Dare was born in 1587; and near by is Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers in 1903 made their first successful flight. Just outside the city, on the banks of Halls Creek, is the spot where the first general assembly of Virginia met on Feb. 6, 1665.