Joyner, Jennifer Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant The Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant, Greenville, N.C., was once part of the Imperial Tobacco Company. Originally founded in the United Kingdom in 1901, the Imperial Tobacco Company also had branches in the North Carolina towns of Durham, Oxford, Greenville, and Wilson. Located in "Tobacco Town" off Dickinson Avenue, the Greenville plant was once the largest buyer of tobacco on the Greenville market for the export trade, according to research by local historian Roger Kammerer. Most of the structure was built in the early 1900s. The company left Greenville in 1978, leaving behind the building covering two city blocks. There were plans of restoring the structure, but on April 17, 2008, the plant was gutted by fire. Image original from North Carolina State Archives. Date approximated. 605.1.a 4176 350 1978 1982 1978-1982 eng still image photographs 180mm x 120mm x 0mm United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Greenville (N.C.) Tobacco industry North Carolina Greenville Warehouses North Carolina Greenville Imperial Tobacco Ohno, Kate creator This item has been made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Researchers are responsible for using these materials in accordance with Title 17 of the United States Code and any other applicable statutes. If you are the creator or copyright holder of this item and would like it removed, please contact us at ALS_DIGITALPROJECTS@ECU.EDU. Cotter, Michael, ed. The Architectural Heritage of Greenville, North Carolina. Greenville, NC: Greenville Area Preservation Association, 1988. 123-24. Print. Agriculture agriculture Tobacco tobacco Architecture architecture Sauter, Dale 12/12/2008 Special Collections Staff Pick Collection staffpick 0605 Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant The Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant, Greenville, N.C., was once part of the Imperial Tobacco Company. Originally founded in the United Kingdom in 1901, the Imperial Tobacco Company also had branches in the North Carolina towns of Durham, Oxford, Greenville, and Wilson. Located in "Tobacco Town" off Dickinson Avenue, the Greenville plant was once the largest buyer of tobacco on the Greenville market for the export trade, according to research by local historian Roger Kammerer. Most of the structure was built in the early 1900s. The company left Greenville in 1978, leaving behind the building covering two city blocks. There were plans of restoring the structure, but on April 17, 2008, the plant was gutted by fire. Image original from North Carolina State Archives. Date approximated. Ohno, Kate 1978-1982 StillImage photographs 180mm x 120mm x 0mm J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 4176 This item has been made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Researchers are responsible for using these materials in accordance with Title 17 of the United States Code and any other applicable statutes. If you are the creator or copyright holder of this item and would like it removed, please contact us at ALS_DIGITALPROJECTS@ECU.EDU. United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.) Tobacco industry--North Carolina--Greenville Warehouses--North Carolina--Greenville Imperial Tobacco local, filename 4176.0001 14148728 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 b09181cbd4ffd359e0740ee68d7c8e7c ecu:digital_collections 4139 3413 Grayscale 180 mm 120 mm 20081112 Digital Collections Epson Expression 10000XL Silverfast Ai v6.5.5r4 object plane in. 575 1 575 1 8 integer 1 internal