Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Jamesville, NC

Jamesville is a town in eastern Martin County in northeastern North Carolina, bordered to the north by the Roanoke River, which forms the Bertie County line.

Jamesville is the second oldest town in Martin County: it was incorporated in 1785 as James Town, its name changed to Jamestown in 1797, and it became Jamesville on February 10, 1855.

The 2020 census counted 424 residents in Jamesville, down from 491 in 2010, in a town of about 1.46 square miles along U.S. Route 64, roughly 10 miles east of Williamston, the county seat.

Before the Civil War, Jamesville thrived on the Roanoke River trade: Dennis Simmons' sawmill operation and the Astoria Mill about a mile upriver made it the site of Martin County's largest antebellum industry.

By 1889 Jamesville was touted as the largest manufacturer of wood shingles in North Carolina, producing about 25,000 shingles a day.

The town's river economy also centered on the famous spring herring runs, when "fishing machines" on the Roanoke drew hundreds of people; the C.C. Fleming Fishery on Stewart Street was the most successful of the town's fisheries.

Jamesville was virtually destroyed during the Civil War, caught between Union forces at Plymouth downriver and Confederate positions upriver; the circa-1810 Burras House on West Main Street is the only surviving antebellum residence in town.

Jamesville Elementary School serves the town's youngest students within the Martin County school system.

The town appears in fiction as a setting in Don Brown's historical novel Destiny, the prequel to his Navy Justice series.