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22990
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In this series of stories, the author recounts a funny story from 1905 of a little boy who refused to wear a puffy shirt. In 1900 there was a troubled affair between Jesse James and E. Lewis. James wanted to marry Lewis’ daughter, and when he came to forcibly take the girl, there was a terrible shootout. In 1901, parents in Greenville advertised their new rules on dating their daughters. In 1895, Mrs. T. A. Nichols owned bread baked by her dead mother from 1869 and put away as a memory of her. From 1906, there is a list of salaries for Greenville town officials. There is an exciting story from 1910 of how G. V. Smith and another man were working repairing the Pillsboro bridge and a section they were on broke loose and took them seven miles down the river. There is an interesting observation made about the Chicod Creek. It makes a several mile circuitous route dumps into the Tar River above its source on the Tar River. In 1915, there was terrible hail storm in Greenville that left 8 inches of hail on downtown streets. And lastly a funny statement about a young man that had moved so much, his chickens lie down and cross their legs to be tied, and his old cat crawls into a meal bag ready to be moved again.
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22991
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The author gives an account of a Confederate reunion which was held in Greenville on September 5, 1895, and its participants and events are discussed. The article gives a large list of the members of the Bryan Grimes Camp of Confederate Veterans that attended and the companies they were attached to in the Civil War..
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22992
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Kammerer presents the biographies of Edward Warren Hearne (1891-1966) and Georgia Pearsall Hearne (1885-1981) who were once well known personalities in Greenville. Edward was an artist, WWI veteran, teacher and became a nationally famous female impersonator. Georgia was a famous portrait painter. Their artwork is still found in many collections all over Greenville.
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22993
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The Old Brick Store on Evans Street, the first brick store building in Greenville, has been hidden from the world by several renovations in its history. Built by George E. B. Singletary in 1855, the store served as Confederate quarters in the Civil War. In 1875, Samuel M. Schultz opened a grocery store there and began a 20 year stay that made the place famous. Later the building was used as dental office, newspaper office and other grocery stores. In 1913, the building became the Greenville Banking and Trust Company (later Guaranty Bank).
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22994
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Cottendale, located near Falkland, was the renowned home of two extraordinary people: Robert Randolph Cotten and his wife, Sallie Southall Cotten. Both were involved in local, State and national cultural, governmental, military, agricultural, and business activities. In 1931, Pitt County named the eight mile stretch of road from Bruce to Greenville the “Sallie Southall Cotton Memorial Drive,” and numerous clubs paid to have dogwoods, sycamore, crepe myrtle and cedars planted along the road in her honor. The trees were cut down in 1951 to widen the road. On March 25, 1961, Cottendale, with its antique furniture, silver and family portraits, burned to the ground.
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Greenville had a town common by the river below what is today called First Street. From its first uses in 1787 as a place for grazing livestock, it has had an interesting history. The site was the location for ferries, shipbuilding, steam sawmills, ice houses and steamboat warehouses. In 1958, the Redevelopment Commission started and their Shore Drive Redevelopment Project condemned the numerous slum dwellings along the river. The land was cleared and a retaining wall and walkway was built. In June 1970, a ceremony was held on the common to celebrate the restoration of the Old Town Common.
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22996
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The author gives a description of events and activities at Christmas in Greenville in 1927. In 1927, the Merchants Association and Woman’s Club had a campaign to light up the city. The Merchants Association swung a string of colored lights across Evans Street at Five Points and in a few days other small strings of lights appeared on other blocks. The Christmas season was full of Community Christmas trees, cantatas, Concerts, special services, fireworks, Salvation Army girls with bells and Tuberculosis Christmas seals.
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22997
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Baseball and all its excitement helped create some of Greenville's most interesting recreational activities in 1911. In 1911, the Greenville Baseball Club joined the Coastline Baseball League, the first organized baseball circuit in this section of the State. Players participated in several series against Ayden and Kinston. Some of the prominent players from that 1911 team made it big in Greenville after their diamond careers.
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22998
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Reuben Bland (1855-?) was a farmer from Martin Co., NC who married first to Julia E. Coburn and she bore him 15 children. After her death, he married Laura Boyette and she bore him 19 children, including one set of twins. Bland became famous--or infamous--for all his children. Bland moved to Pitt County and in 1927 even went to Washington, DC to meet the Congress and President Coolidge. Bland received hundreds of letters and the author gives one humorous example of one.
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22999
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The Memorial Baptist Church, a landmark in Greenville's religious history, has served its members for over 150 years. This church, constituted on July 2, 1827, had 23 members in October 1827. Thomas D. Mason, the church's first pastor, established the Baptist Benevolent Society to raise money for traveling ministers. Reverend Thomas Carrick helped construct a new church on Greene Street, dedicated on October 12, 1890 and demolished after the completion of another new church on Greenville Boulevard in 1973.
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The Jesse R. Moye house, located near the intersection of West Fifth and Pitt Streets, was one of the Greenville mansions and has an interesting history. Jesse R. Moye (1858-1935) was a successful merchant and married to Susan Novella Higgs, who at the age 12, was the youngest dancing instructor in America. Designed by Herbert Woodley Simpson of New Bern, NC, the house was built in 1902/1903 in a blend of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style popular at the time. Long the home of family descendants, the house was sold to a faculty member of the ECU School of Music and is now known as “The Music House.”
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The Court House Square bounded by Third, Evans, Second and Washington Streets has long been considered the “hub” of Greenville. The square, on which stands the Court House after the fire of 1910, was also the site for several other structures. The site also included the H. C. Edwards Building, built in 1911 was torn down in 1969. The Greenville National Guard Building which was built in 1931, was torn down in 1971. Then St. Peter’s Catholic Church, the David Dudley House, the Water Tank called the “Stand Pipe, used from 1905-1939, and several monuments.
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Respess Brothers Barbecue, started in 1934 by brothers V. Alton Respess, Clement M. (Smug) and Ronald Respess, was long a landmark in Greenville north of the river. Many notable people tasted Respess Barbecue including Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House from Texas and the actor, Mickey Rooney. Respess Barbecue was would ship 25 to 50 pounds of barbecue by train to Washington, DC every Monday afternoon to be served on Tuesdays at the White House cafeteria. It was said President F. D. Roosevelt would eat it up. The Respess Brothers retired in 1972 and the building was sold. After housing numerous other restaurants, the Respess Brothers Barbecue building burned on Aug. 20, 1997.
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The author gives a history of the Universalist faith back to 1827 in North Carolina and the various services held in Pitt County from the 1850s to the 1890s. In 1905, Mrs. Delphia Moye (1857-1905) bought a lot on Dickinson Avenue and built a Universalist Church. Her funeral was the first service held in the church. The church went down by the 1920’s and in 1922 the congregation of the Great Swamp Primitive Baptist Church was holding services in the old church. In 1931, the Universalist Church building was donated to the Salvation Army and the building appears to have been razed by 1950.
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Originally known as “Arthur,” it developed after 1907, when the Norfolk and Southern Railroad built a line through the area. It began when two Greenville businessmen, L. C. Arthur and C. T. Munford, bought what was known as the “Becton Farm,” and began subdividing the land and selling lots. The town was incorporated as “Arthur” in 1911. The town gained notoriety in 1916 as the home of “Gar Gar” Edwards, the cigar smoking three year old. On April 16, 1932, the entire business district burned down. In 1933, the town of Arthur was incorporated as “Bell-Arthur.” In 1966, the town lost its charter.
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