Comfort, North Carolina

Comfort, North Carolina
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 35°00′21″N77°30′32″W / 35.00583°N 77.50889°W / 35.00583; -77.50889
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
County	Jones
Elevation [1]	52 ft (16 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	28522
Area codes	910, 472, 252
FIPS code	?
GNIS feature ID	982411 [1]

Comfort is an unincorporated community in Jones County, in eastern North Carolina, United States. ^[2]

According to Christina Moon’s The Architectural History of Jones County, North Carolina ^[3] , four early settlements developed in Jones County, North Carolina: Pollocksville, Trenton, Comfort, and Maysville. All but Comfort have incorporated.

“A third settlement, which may have been little more than a crossroads, was established in the eastern part of the county near present-day Comfort. Local still remember “Old Comfort,” the original community that developed around the Shine plantations. Several local stories offer explanations for the name Comfort; one account is linked to George Washington’s 1791 tour of the South. After spending the night at the Shine Inn, Washington was asked how he had slept. When he relied, “I slept in comfort,” the name became permanently linked to the community. ^[4] Despite its small size. Comfort had a post office as early as 1826 and was recognized as a landmark in civil War officers’ reports." ^[5]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Comfort, North Carolina. Retrieved on 2013-10-28.
2. North Carolina Hometown Locator
3. Moon, Christiana R., (2016), The Architectural History of Jones County, North Carolina, Jones County Historical Society, Inc, p5.
4. Daniel Shine (1729-1801) was a colonel in the army. He married Barbara Franck, daughter of John Martin Franck, and it is possible portions of the Shine land came from some of the extensive holdings owned by Franck, an important patriarch of the Palatines. Daniel Shines’s holdings included a plantation known as Royal Oak in the Comfort area. While local tradition suggests that the Shine Inn referred to during Washington’s Southern tour belonged to Daniel Shine, research completed by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History for the State Highway Marker Program links the inn to John Shine’s (1725-1783) Daniel’s brother. The existing Shine House was built ca. 1812-15 for Daniel and Barbara’s son, James Shine, who hosted President James Monroe and John C. Calhoun in 1819.
5. War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Government Printing Office,(1883),Washington, DC, p. 862.