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A.B. Ellington (1857-1941) came to Greenville as a metal worker. He later was a wall paper agent, worked for J. B. Cherry and then opened a "Racket Store." He began to sell books in his store and later opened Ellington’s Book Store. The bookstore was a Greenville landmark and sold school textbooks, school supplies and sold the first E.C.T.T.S. pennants and souvenirs for female students. The Book Store moved several times and was last purchased by Mrs. Wendell Smiley.
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Pitt County's first courthouse was located on what is now Highway 33 East, across from the entrance to the Brook Valley subdivision. Starting in 1924, a campaign was begun to preserve the old house, which had served as the courthouse from 1760 until 1774. These efforts failed, and the house was torn down in 1926. In October 1930, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a marker at the site to commemorate the historic structure.
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Built by Samuel Tilden White (1873-1966), the local theater and movie house on Fifth Street had a profound impact on the social life in Greenville. White brought the best of Broadway and nationally known acts to Greenville. Over the years it had several owners, becoming the State Theatre in 1930 under T. Yoe Walker and the Park Theatre about 1972. The Park Theatre eventually became the property of Carmike Cinemas, who ran it as a $1.50 movie house until they closed it in 1999
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The Globe Hardware Store located on West Fifth Street has always been a downtown landmark. Started by J.H. Hart and G.W. Baker in 1896, the store later was owned in part by George Wood Bacon Hadley, Ernest L. Baker and Grover C. Davis, James L. Harris Jr., Van C. Fleming Jr., E.H. Taft Jr., M.K. Blount, and F.L. Blount. The Herbert Wilkerson family has operated it since 1954.
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The Pitt County Courthouse, located on Third Street between Evans and Washington streets, was completed in 1911. The Board of County Commissioners collected historical artifacts to be placed in the cornerstone. On the morning of Jan. 26, 1911, with no ceremony, a few people gathered to watch the laying of the cornerstone in the northeast corner of the building. The cornerstone, made of Georgia Creole marble, weighed 1300 pounds and had a hallow underneath to hold the sealed copper box containing the historical artifacts.
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6.A History of Hanrahan by Kammerer, Roger Greenville Times / Pitt's Past Vol. Issue , May 5-18 1999
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The village of Hanrahan, located southwest of Greenville, was first known as “Pleasant Hill” and later as “Hanrahan’s Mills.” It was named after James A. Hanrahan (1831-1891) who had a store there. A post office was established there called “Hanrahan,” with Sarah R. Collins as first postmaster. After the railroad came through in 1890, James A. Hanrahan and his brother-in-law, J. T. Worthington erected grist mills and a cotton gin. The business was called the “Hanrahan Milling Company.” The business died sometime after 1910.
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The author gives five interesting stories from Pitt County’s past. Back in 1966, slot racing was a big thing and enthusiasts would go to Howard Bodkin’s Music Store to race on his 112 ft. track in a back room. In December 1967, the singer, Ray Charles, was the first concert artist to appear in ECU’s new 7,000 seat Minges Coliseum. Tickets were $3.00 each to the general public and 50 cents for faculty and students. The third story gives interesting details about Alex Ogman, a former slave, who in 1940 had had nineteen wives and 40 children. The next story from 1789 describes a counterfeiter's gruesome punishment. And lastly there was an account concerning lost dynamite located under ECU’s YWCA Hut building, behind the Infirmary.
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The County Home, formerly known as the” Poor House” and the home for the aged and infirm, was built near Bell’s Fork, on the old New Bern-Greenville Road (now County Home Road). It served for (good and bad) as the boarding place for the aged, destitute, homeless, drunkards, senile and sickly, long before social programs could help these people. The first Pitt County Poor House was built in 1828 on land purchased from John Cherry. Conditions were very poor until after 1885. In 1917, a new County Home complex was built on the original site. The County closed the Pitt County Home in 1965 and it was then used to store Civil Defense supplies.
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Soldiers from Pitt County who served in World War I included two lieutenant colonels, four majors, five captains, three first lieutenants, and seven second lieutenants. Twenty-nine men never returned from war. There are memorials for the fallen soldiers at Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Pitt County's human involvement in the Great War was tremendous, including two lieutenant colonels, four majors, five captains, three first lieutenants, and seven second lieutenants. Twenty-nine men never returned from war and their names are given. There are now memorials for these fallen soldiers at Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church and the Court House.
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From the records there was a Primitive Baptist Church near Contentnea Creek as early as 1793. On Aug. 4, 1823, a group of people were dismissed from Meadows Primitive Baptist Church in Greene Co., NC to start a church in Pitt County. On Sept. 18, 1823 the church at Tyson’s Meeting House was constituted. Tyson’s Meeting House became a free church by the 1850s and several other denominations met there. In 1871, Richard Lawrence Tyson remodeled (or rebuilt) Tyson’s Meeting House into a new church. Tyson’s Church ended about 1985 and some of the original pews were saved by Connor Eagles and are now at the Village of Yesteryear.
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The author shares the fun details from the newspaper about three Halloween parties. The parties described are a Presbyterian Church Halloween Party, October 1931; a Halloween Birthday Party, October 1931, for "Little Miss Jennie C. Joyner;" and a Baptist Church Halloween Party, from October 1920.
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The Osceola Band was a renowned community band which grew to have the reputation of being one of the best bands in the State. The band was originally started in 1872 by Alfred A. Forbes (1842-1922) as the Greenville Brass Band. In 1898, Alfred A. Forbes and Osceola T. (Ola) Forbes organized the Greenville Cornet Band. In 1900, they had uniforms that were dark green with a stripe of gilt braid down the legs and bars of black braid across the breast. The cap was ornamented with the words “Osceola” in gilt letters. The band only lasted a few years.
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ECU's football stadium began with a building campaign in 1961. Dr. Leo Jenkins , the new college president, approached W. M. (Booger) Scales, Jr. as chairman of the drive to finance the James S. Ficklen Memorial Stadium. Ground was broken on the proposed site of the stadium on May 3, 1962, the late J. S. Ficklen’s birthday. The Stadium was formally dedicated on the evening of Sept. 21, 1963. The second portion of Ficklen Stadium was dedicated in September 1968. Before the 1978 season, the seating capacity was again expanded from 20,000 to 35,000.
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Union Carbide was a Greenville industrial landmark after it arrived as National Carbon Corporation in 1943. The first plant, which made goods for WWII, was at the intersection of 14th and Cotanche Streets and expanded several times. In 1964, they moved to their second plant at the intersection of Evans Street and Greenville Boulevard to produce batteries. Eventually the plant was closed and the building razed in 1995 to make room for a shopping center.
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This store on Evans Street was once an "uptown" Greenville landmark. Charles Thomas Munford (1862-1943), otherwise known as C.T. Munford, was a merchant, a Mason, civic leader, land developer, a longtime member of the Chamber of Commerce and Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church. He is remembered for having the first life size mannequin in town in 1902.
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