Archaeological inspections have been conducted at three sites in Bertie County in connection with Coastal Area Management Act permits for development. The survey of Salmon Creek identified thirteen underwater archaeological sites. A prehistoric ossuary containing about nine individual and two historic burials were also evaluated. Over 200 sites in Bertie County are recorded in the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office's statewide inventory.
In the early 1980s a reconnaissance level survey recorded many of Bertie County's distinguished architectural and historic properties. This was a cooperative project between the regional Mid-East Commission and the Historic Preservation Office, accomplished with grants and staff assistance from the Historic Preservation Office.
Since 1969 Bertie County has received $1,076,900 in special state appropriations and $14,000 in federal subgrants. The majority of these funds have been used for the restoration of Hope Plantation and the King-Bazemore House and the construction of the Roanoke-Chowan Heritage Center at Historic Hope.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
There are nineteen National Register listings in Bertie County, including the Windsor Historic District, the Woodville Historic District, and Hope Plantation.
Five residences are currently undergoing renovation to utilize the new state tax credit for non-income producing historic structures. The Historic Preservation Office reviews and provides restoration technical services for all preservation tax credit projects.
PUBLIC EDUCATION
The Historic Preservation Office assisted the Brockton Art Museum with an exhibit, "The Transference and Transformation of Architectural Thought from the Southern U.S. to Liberia, West Africa," in 1987, and assisted the Bertie County Board of Education in conducting a teachers' workshop on historic preservation for grades four through eight in 1990.
Technical restoration services have been provided to Historic Hope for the David Stone House, the King-Bazemore and Cox houses, and the King Freeman Speight House, and to Historic Woodville Inc. for St. Francis Church. Renovation guidance has been provided for several buildings in the Windsor Historic District and to the Freeman Hotel. Consultations in rural Bertie County have included Elmwood Plantation and several others. Following the extensive flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd in September 1999, staff provided emergency technical services to the town of Windsor.