NC Gazetteer

Old Sparta

Also known as: Sparta
A town in Edgecombe County
… town in S Edgecombe County on Tar River. Inc. as Sparta, 1876, and reincorporated as Old Sparta, 1903. No longer active in municipal affairs. Post office est. 1829; probably came to be called Old Sparta after Sparta, county seat of Alleghany County, est. 1859, began to thrive.