Record #:

23427

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

The first train that came through Pitt County arrived in Bethel on September 12, 1882, on the newly completed Seaboard - Raleigh Railroad. Citizens of a three - county region celebrated this occasion with speeches and a dinner. The Tarboro Southerner covered this event, and the resulting article is included. Chartered in 1868, financial reverses caused many delays in the railroad's completion. It was not until 1890 that a train would come through Greenville.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Oct 12-25 2005, p6-7, 10

Subject(s):

Railroads--Pitt County