Ahoskie is a town in Hertford County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,039 at the 2010 census. Ahoskie is located in North Carolina’s Inner Banks region. Its nickname is “The Only One” because no additional town in the world is known by the same name. The etymology of the word Ahoskie, which was originally spelled “Ahotsky,” was from the Wyanoke Indians, who entered the Hertford County Place at the start of European settlement.^{[citation needed]}

Ahoskie began as a railroad siding for log trains hauling timber from the forests of Bertie and Hertford counties to a sawmill at Tunis on the Chowan and Southern Railroad line initiation in 1885. The town grew out of a loading station and commissaries to supply the community workers who cut, hauled and loaded the logs. Ahoskie’s reveal office was conventional in 1889. The first passenger train passed through town upon the newly opened tracks of the Norfolk and Carolina extraction in 1890.  

By the times of its incorporation upon January 24, 1893, Ahoskie had grown to append several stores, a maxim mill and gin, a one-room school and a Baptist church. Other industries that flourished in the town’s in the future days included an ice plant, a laundry operated by a directionless Chinese man, and a number of horse and mule exchanges and sales stables. Since few of the smaller towns in Hertford and Bertie counties were located upon passenger lines, traveling salesman or “drummers” would use the town as a base to make sales trips to outlying community stores by horse and buggy.

The town’s first bank, the Bank of Ahoskie, was chartered in 1905.