Pungo
A one stop light town that derives its name from a local Indian tribe, the Machipungo.
John was a local farmer who started the New Earth Farm focusing on organic, fresh, seasonal food.
Home of the annual Strawberry Festival (with pig races and marching bands), horse stables, farms, and abandoned memories. A scenic drive through on your way to the beaches of Sandbridge, or the even quainter Knotts Island in North Carolina. Located here are churches that date back to 1830, a small school for the children of freed African-Americans, post offices and general merchandise stores, a country store run by the Brinkley family that was well known for its sandwiches and ice cream, a store that in its last incarnation was famous for its Bar-B-Que and has 5 foot wooden pigs in football uniforms that they’d place along the road during football season, and Munden's Store that was built in 1908.
Munden was a sort of adopted son to Kermit Land, who, along with his buddy Enoch Capps, built the place. The two lived across the street from each other on Princess Anne Road, a few hundred feet from the store.
Land rented to Munden on a handshake, told him a lease is no better than the paper it's printed on. When Land died, his family honored the arrangement.
Until recently...and now the property and it's future is being debated. We sure could use another WAWA.
The Annual Pungo Strawberry Festival, before the City decided to monetarize it and before Covid.
