Pittsboro
About Pittsboro
Town in North Carolina, United StatesPittsboro is a town in and the county seat of Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,743 at the 2010 census and 4,537 at the 2020 census. The town was established in the late 18th century, shortly after the American Revolution, as the county seat for the newly formed Chatham County. In the years leading up to the American Civil War, the economy was dominated by small-scale farms that relied heavily on enslaved labor. In the aftermath of the civil war, racial tensions were high, and the town was noted for a number of lynchings and other racial violence in the late 19th century. Industrialization came to the community in the late 19th century, as a number of river…
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