Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Eden, NC

Eden is a city in Rockingham County in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad, part of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area, and it is the largest city in Rockingham County.

Eden's motto is "Land of Two Rivers": the Smith River flows from the north and bisects the city before joining the Dan River along Eden's southern border.

The land that became Eden was once part of a 70,000-acre estate owned by Virginia planter William Byrd II, who called it "The Land of Eden."

Eden was created on September 12, 1967, when voters consolidated the three textile towns of Leaksville, Spray, and Draper (plus the Meadow Greens Sanitary District) into a single city by a vote of 2,252 to 1,753, and 784 voters chose the name Eden.

The 2020 census counted 15,421 people in Eden, and Census figures show about 6,410 households, with roughly 55% of homes owner-occupied.

Textile industrialist Benjamin Franklin Mebane opened the first of his mills in the area in 1893; Marshall Field bought the mills in 1912 and renamed them Fieldcrest, which grew to employ more than 3,000 people making sheets, blankets, and towels.

Fieldcrest became Fieldcrest Cannon in 1986, and after its sale to Pillowtex the last Eden plants closed in 2003, laying off the final 495 workers.

Miller Brewing Company opened a brewery in Eden in 1978 that once employed nearly 700 people and produced about nine million barrels of beer a year, but MillerCoors closed it in September 2016.

In February 2014 a Duke Energy coal ash spill at Eden released about 39,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into the Dan River.

Eden's parks include the 1.5-mile Smith River Greenway along the Smith River and the 58-acre Freedom Park, and the city celebrates its rivers each September with the annual RiverFest.