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In this collection of local stories, a farmer in 1925 deposits $1,515.21 in coins in the Greenville Bank and Trust Company. It took three money counters more than three hours to sort them. In 1894, there was a bed of granite that covered three acres in Falkland township. In the 1850s the granite was worked for mill stones, door stoops and the occasional grave marker. It was judged to be of fine quality and some of it was exhibited in the 1884 NC Exposition. Also in 1884, R. A. Bynum was selling the Centre Bluff Landing in Pitt County and a coon hunt ended with the cutting down of 18 ft. 7 inch round tree and the dispatching of an 18 ½ pd. coon. A meteor passed over Greenville in 1921 heading east and then exploded. The shock wave and earth tremor scared everyone. In 1888, S. M. Jones of near Bethel, had a milk cow that hated to be tied up to be milked; so it ate the rope.
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