Bettie, named for the postmaster when the post office came, has served as the "Gateway" to Down East ever since the North River Bridge was constructed. Bettie has long been an agricultural community and continues to be so today.
Bettie is known as the “Gateway” to Down East. It is the first community traveling northeast via Highway 70 as you cross over the North River Bridge.
Bettie is a farming community, with cabbage being one of the main cash crops. In the past, many migrant workers were housed in Bettie as they worked in the fields at harvest time.
There is a bakery and produce stand located in Bettie that sells local produce and homemade baked goods.
Bettie was home to an Oyster Bar & Restaurant on one side of the North River Bridge and a store on the other side. These were heavily damaged during Hurricane Hazel in 1954 but the posts can still be seen beside the bridge.
The original name of the community was “Simpson.”
The first North River Bridge was built in the 1920s.
The name “Bettie” comes from the postmaster at the time the community’s post office was established.