Official Name: | Jarvisburg, North Carolina |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | North Carolina |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Currituck |
Coordinates: | 36.2029°N -75.8666°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 27947 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 987532 |
Jarvisburg is an unincorporated community in rural Currituck County, North Carolina. A post office was established around 1890.
There is a post office, elementary school, cafe, Jarvisburg Church of Christ, and Sanctuary Vineyard winery.
A two room schoolhouse for "colored" students in the district was enlarged and remodeled in 1911, adding a second-story and central bell tower, the Jarvisburg Colored School is now a museum and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Corinth Baptist Church is also located in the area.[1] A 1929 building, once a working cotton gin, was destroyed by fire in 2019. At that time the building contained a well-known gift shop called "The Cotton Gin".
In 2022 a resident of Jarvisburg won $2 million dollars on a scratch-off game administered by the North Carolina Education Lottery.[2]