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22863
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As early as 1908, Ben Higgs got a 99 year lease of the Greenville riverfront for developing a waterway with a terminal at Greenville. Efforts were being made to transform Greenville into a port. The Tar River was dredged from Washington to Hardee’s Creek in 1939, 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The Port Terminal Commission acquired 45 acres on Hardees Creek for a warehouse beside the landing. The first freighter, The Eldora, from Savannah with sugar, landed at Port Terminal on October 12, 1940. Port Terminal operated until March 1942. The channel was re-dredged in 1949.
In 1908, Greenville citizens attempted to establish a port. Port Terminal, located on the Tar River near Hardee's Creek, later became the site of the port, opening on October 12, 1940, and operating until March 1942.
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22864
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The Tar River was the lifeline of Greenville and many other Eastern North Carolina towns. To open it to more boat traffic and to increase economic growth, efforts were made to convert the Tar River into a locked river by building dams. In 1848/49 NC Legislature passed an appropriation of $25,000 to clean out the Tar River. A Colonel W.B. Thompson in 1853 stated that the river needed low dams and locks--at Sycamore Shoal, Bryant's Creek, Walston's Landing, and a half-mile from Sparta. In 1854 Colonel Thompson began building the locks, but the work was suspended in 1857. Another partial dam was built through the low grounds North of the river to the bridge in 1892.
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