Waynesborough

… first county seat of Wayne County, est. 1787. The town died after the county seat was moved to Goldsboro in 1850. Waynesborough was located on land formerly owned by Andrew Bass, delegate to the Provincial Congress of 1775, at the SW edge of the present county seat on Neuse River. After 1847 many houses were moved from the old town to the new. The old courthouse, built by Col. William McKinne, was destroyed prior to 1917.