Bertie County, North Carolina

6 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 BERT I E COUNTY , NORTH CAROL INA Carolina, you’re going to the beach. And you come right past us.” Bertie County has much to offer. There’s Occano, with the Arnold Palmer Signature Championship Golf Course, which overlooks the spectacular Albemarle Sound. They have agricultural corporations and high tech companies and manufacturers producing body armor for the military and law enforcement. Their schools are newer, too. Trent says that one of the best things about Bertie County is its natural beauty. They are now working on putting that beauty on display and expanding their ecotourism. Bertie County continues to find ways to move forward. To be relevant and profitable. “One of the things we understood early on,” says Wesson, “is that no one is going to save us here at Bertie County but us. So we had to make sure that we invested in the things that would improve the quality of life here. I was born and raised here. We’re the third largest county in the state of North Carolina. We’ve been making the transition from an agricultural base, trying to leverage resources in this county to give us diversity; to give us income based opportunities. We are uniquely positioned right on the Albemarle Sound, which is the pathway to the beach. So if you’re going anywhere in North