Record #:

22859

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer tells local stories that include a "Historical Castle," a museum set up on Dickinson Avenue in 1930 that sounded like Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. That in 1934, the Welcome to Greenville sign was a broken down mess. In 1933, the world famous Prof. and Madam Nemar, noted magicians and tricksters, came to Greenville and put on a blindfolded drive through the crowded streets of Greenville and a magic show at the Greenville High School. In 1933 there was a Greenville campaign to get rid of hobos and there were numerous dairies in Pitt County in 1940. And lastly, Preston Pierce, former police chief and now tax collector in 1933, was cleaning his gun in his office in the Court House and it accidently fired which lead to panic and mayhem.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 25-May 8 1990, p8

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History