Bertie County, North Carolina

3 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 AT A GLANCE BERTIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WHAT: A beautiful, historic community WHERE: On Albemarle Sound in northeast North Carolina WEBSITE: http://www.co.bertie.nc.us/ W ater, the priceless natural resource, has brought new life for Bertie County in northeast North Carolina. There’s lots of water here: the Roanoke River, the Chowan River, the Cashie River, and the Albemarle Sound. Bertie County has nature-based assets in abundance and they are using those assets – all those beautiful waterways – to attract new people and new profits. It comes in the form of a new initiative, appropriately named Tall Glass of Water, that utilizes their number one resource: water. The county invested in a 147-acre property, featuring a sandy beach on calm, shallow water. It provides public access to the beaches, something that Bertie County never had. Ron Wesson, Vice-Chair of the Bertie County Board of Commissioners, explains, “We have world-class waterways in Bertie County that have never been