Pates, North Carolina

Pates is a community in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.

[2] According to historian William McKee Evans, it was preceded by a village known as Eureka.

[3] The community of Pates was established around 1880 by Russell W. Livermore, who settled on the land of a dead friend.

The community was incorporated in 1883, though in time its municipal government became inactive.

[4] In 1887 the Croatan Normal School was founded, and its first buildings were established in Pates.