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23378
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As early as 1851, Greenville citizens, such as Dr. Noah Joyner, tried to raise tobacco in Pitt County. Leon F. Evans, however, is known as the true father of tobacco in Pitt County. While traveling in Nash County in 1885, he met Mr. J. T. Seat, a tobacco farmer near Rocky Mount, NC. Mr. Seat agreed to come to Pitt County to talk to the local farmers about raising tobacco. A. A. Forbes, Leon F. Evans, Jacob Joyner, G. F. Evans, and T. J. Stancill contracted with Mr. Seat for assistance the following year. The first curing barns were constructed by Leon F. Evans in 1886. At first, the farmers had to carry their product by wagon to markets in Henderson, Oxford and Wilson. R. J. Cobb and O. L. Joyner built the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse in 1891 to remedy this dilemma. O. L. Joyner and Alex Heilbroner built the Eastern Tobacco Warehouse in 1892. E. A. Moye and Ola Forbes built the Planters Warehouse in 1895, and C. D. Rountree, Wiley Brown and McG. Ernul built the Star Warehouse.
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Blackbeard has many connections with eastern North Carolina. He supposedly had houses near Bath, Beaufort, Ocracoke Island, and Holiday’s Island, as well as a lookout near Grimesland. According to Capt. Charles Johnson, the author of “A General Historie of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates,” Blackbeard’s name was Edward Teach and he was born in Bristol, England. He sailed with Capt. Benjamin Hornigold in 1717 until he was given his on ship, the La Concorde, which he renamed “Queen Anne’s Revenge.” Blackbeard later teamed up with the gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet. They blockaded Charleston, SC in May 1718 for medical supplies. The Queen Anne’s Revenge ran aground while headed towards Beaufort, NC. Blackbeard and his crew accepted the Royal pardon for piracy, but continued to take ships. Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia offered a 100 pound reward for the capture of Blackbeard, dead or alive in November 1718. Blackbeard was captured and killed by Lt. Robert Maynard in November 1718.
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Presidents who visited Greenville include George Washington in 1791 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.\r\nSeveral Greenville citizens attended Grover Cleveland's Inauguration on March 4, 1885, and a local newspaper reported Miss Ella Monterio of Greenville as the most beautiful woman at President Cleveland's reception. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited Greenville in 1941. J. G. Gibbs presented President Truman with a unique desk in 1950 and in 1962, Vance Daniel of Farmville met with President Kennedy at the White House. Several Greenville citizens attended President Kennedy's funeral in 1963 and, Pitt Countians attended the Presidential Inauguration for Lyndon Baines Johnson.\r\n
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Charles Alexander White was born to James Speight White and Lotitia Grady in 1833 near New Bern, N.C.. He was a Confederate Captain in Company E, 67th Regiment, N.C. State Troops during the Civil War. He married Louisa Amanda Cory on September 14, 1864 and they had seven children. Capt. White was a farmer until the fall of 1879 when he opened a general store in Greenville in two of the four buildings he owned on the corner of Evans and Fifth Street in Greenville. White soon became a leading merchant in the town and was the Vice Commander of the Pitt Council No. 286, A.L. of H. Lodge in December 1885. He was also a member of the Greenville Land and Improvement Company in April 1891. Capt. White died on October 18, 1914. His daughter, Lula Victoria White, married James Lawson Fleming, the North Carolina Senator who introduced the bill to establish a Teachers College in Greenville.
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In 1935, Mrs. Marie Baker Cox and Mrs. Uran Cox started the Cox Floral Service, Inc. in Mrs. Cox’s home. They moved the business in 1937 to East Fifth Street and moved it again to its current location at 1177 West Fourth Street in 1946. Mrs. Cox, featured in many magazines articles, became sole owner of the business in 1940. She received the Sally Southall Cotton Award in 2003 and at 97 years of age, Mrs. Cox still works in her shop supervising and working on arrangements. Mrs. Cammie Moore and Mrs. J.H. Randolph opened Moore and Randolph Florists in 1922. J.B. Simpson bought the business in 1945 and named it “Simpson’s Florist.” Thomas Graham and Aileen Jefferson purchased Simpson’s Florist in 1948 and renamed it Jefferson’s Florist. The name changed to Jefferson’s Florist and Nursery in 1955. Jefferson’s Florist relocated to Red Banks Road in 1990, and then to the Blount-Harvey building in March 2006.
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Charles Green built the Greene-Skinner House during 1845 - 1850. After Greene's death in 1861, David H. Dill rented the house. Robert Greene became sole owner in 1863, and later sold it to Dill's wife, Harriet L. Dill. The house was a hospital during the Civil War. When the Dills died, the house went to Harriet Dill's sister, Ann Delaney, and then to David Dill's heirs. The Dill brothers sold the property to Frank W. Brown, who mortgaged the property back to the Dills. They sold the property to Joseph G. Moye in 1898, and the Moye family sold the property in 1917 to Dr. Louis C. Skinner. Skinner and Dr. Joseph Smith opened a clinic and emergency hospital in the house. The clinic remained in the house until Dr. Smith moved it in 1946. The Skinner heirs sold the house in 1968 to the Eastern Realty Company.
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These are excerpts from a book to be published in the future entitled “The Forgotten Tales of North Carolina,” by Tom Painter and Roger Kammerer. The first story is about a man named Spence preaching “Sanctification” in Wake County, who secretly set up a series of posts and planks in a local pond to demonstrate his ability to walk on water in April 1898. The night before his stunt, pranksters removed one of the planks, and when Spence attempted his “miracle” the next day in front of a crowd he fell into the pond. For many years a 90-foot whalebone once acted as a bridge across Fishing Creek from the Nash to the Halifax county side. At a Confederate reunion in Durham, N.C. in 1914, General J.S. Carr and Major J.M. Hamilton got into a heated argument and slapped each other. On February 25, 1853, in Tarboro, NC, at the peculiar hour of midnight, Miss Sarah Susan Elizabeth Panza Mills and Senor Don Alonzo Edgar Howard were married, after one hour’s acquaintance. In 1899, a farmer in Halifax County found a tin of foreign gold coins from 1715 to 1775, while plowing in his field.
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Greenville has been home to a long list of bottling companies. The first known bottling company was in 1883, when S. M. Schwartz opened the Greenville Bottling Company. In 1884, J. H. Shelburn & Anderson opened a beer bottling establishment. In 1892, Ed. H. Shelburn & Co. opened a bottling company for carbonated drinks and beer. He was the first person to sell Coca Cola in Greenville in 1893 and by 1897 was one of the largest bottlers in the State. Other bottling companies include: Euvita Bottling Co. in 1903; Burton Soda Water and Ice Cream Works in 1906; the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company in 1908; Coca Cola Bottling Works in 1908; the Chero-Cola Bottling Company in 1915; the Mint Cola Bottling Works in 1919; the Cherry Blossom Bottling Company in 1922; the Lime Cola Bottling Company in 1922; the Orange Crush Bottling Company in 1923; the Nehi Bottling Company in 1933; the Double Cola Bottling Company in 1939; and the Greenville Tip Company in 1940.
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Greenville once enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most beautiful small towns in the South, especially during the holiday season. Early decorations were handmade and Christmas trees were put up on Christmas Eve or Christmas day. Candles were only lit on the tree when there was a gathering of people to watch it. Electric Christmas lights started being used about 1916 and the Merchants Association made sure the downtown had decorations. In 1928, the Merchants Association began placing a 30 foot Christmas tree attached to wires over top the traffic island in the center of Five Points. Fire crackers, Roman candles and other fireworks turned the downtown into a battle zone and kept the fire department busy putting out fires on store awnings. There were “Mummers,” carolers, and choirs. In the early 1960’s, there was a nationwide Christmas radio broadcast from Greenville, NC, issuing a Tar Heel Christmas greeting to the country. There were always special Christmas programs at the County Home and the Prison unit north of the river.
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The McGowan-Thomas House located at the southeast corner of Chestnut and Columbia Streets was once part of The Greenville Collegiate Institute. The Methodists of the Washington District of the N.C. Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South received a deed to six acres of land in 1881 and began building The Greenville Collegiate Institute. It was never finished and Alfred Forbes, Isaac A. Suggs, and Harry Skinner bought the property in May 1884 and finished building the school. The Greenville Male and Female Institute opened on September 1, 1885 with Prof. John Duckett as principal. The Institute merged with the Greenville Male Academy in August 1890 and became the Greenville Institute for Both Sexes. From September 1894 to June 1895, it was called the Pitt Female Seminary. Mrs. Della Gay rented the building in August 1895 and turned it into the College Hotel. It became a school again when Prof. L.L. Hargrave and his wife started a school for girls in 1898. In December 1899, the building was moved and separated into three houses which later became rental apartments.
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In 1903, John G. Lautares (1887–1953) came to America from Greece. He arrived in Greenville in 1909 but left to work for a movie theatre in Plymouth, NC. Lautares later returned to Greenville, where he sold homemade candy and operated a fruit stand. His brother, Peter G. Lautares (1896–1983) joined him in Greenville in 1911. John bought the “Candy Kitchen” and renamed it “The Candy Palace” in March 1912. John married Pearl Jefferson in 1914. Lautares began making ice cream and became one of the leading ice cream dealers in eastern North Carolina. Lautares added jewelry and watch repair business to the Candy Palace in 1933, and later moved into a separate store in 1937, becoming Lautares Brothers Jewelers. Chris and James Kares bought the Candy Palace from the Lautares in November 1938 after which the Lautares brothers then focused on their jewelry business. In 1953, John’s son, George, became sole owner of the business.
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An 1881 blurb in The New York Times claimed the people in Greenville, N.C. threw their watermelon rinds in the street for the pigs to eat. In 1896, a small girl spent the night at a friend’s house and couldn’t remember how to say her prayers and the friend did not help her. She asked God to “forgive her because she can’t ‘member my prayers, and I am staying with a lady that don’t know any.” In 1895, Dr. Warren told a story about his brother Ollen reciting poetry in his sleep. In March 1901, several boys, Hill Horne, Hassell Daniel and Jim Anderson, got into a knife fight at the well in the yard of Alfred Forbes. John Flanagan reported that there was a crack in the earth across his yard following the Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886. Mr. W.H. Harrington, Pitt County tax collector, continued to conduct business through the jail window while in prison for four months. In April 1890, a toddler was spotted with a cigarette in his mouth. In 1827, a Tarboro newspaper published a humorous calendar with predictions about weather and politics.
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Bicycles began sweeping the nation in the 1890s and D. W. Winstead of Greenville purchased a “high-wheeler” in 1885. The Cycle Club in Greenville held a dress ball in December 1892. Regular bicycles appeared in Greenville by 1893. S.E. Pender & Co. began selling “Rambler” bicycles in 1894. Charlie Forbes, Clarence Whichard, Mr. Priddy, E.A. Moye, Jr., J.J. Cory, L.H. Pender, J.R. Moye, J.B. Cherry, Jr., W.H. Long, Ola Forbes, Gin Dupree, Zeb Highsmith, Walter Pender, Walter Mewborne, Claude Chapman, E. B. Higgs, E. O. McGowan, W. F. Morrill and Gus Hardee were Greenville citizens who owned bicycles in the 1890s. The Greenville wheelmen and the Town Council had a disagreement over roads and sidewalks in 1895. The Greenville Bicycle Club formed in May 1896. Greenville held a bicycle carnival in August 1897. In 1898, S. E. Pender & Co. erected a unique bicycle sign in front of their store with paper on the spokes that snapped when the wheels turned when the wind blew. In 1903, the Greenville Aldermen adopted a bicycle ordinance and in 1911, police chief, George A. Clark, made his rounds on a bicycle.
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Before the days of air conditioning and refrigerators, ice and ice cream were a luxury. Jonathan White, owner of Greenville Bakery and Candy Factory, stored ice in his basement in 1882. A.N. Ryan bought out Mr. White in June 1883 and established an Ice Cream Saloon in part of his store. John Flanagan built an ice warehouse in March 1884, and collaborated with Benjamin Streeter Sheppard to form the Greenville Ice Company in 1885. E.B. Moore reportedly built an ice house in February 1887 that received ice shipments from Maine. J. Cory, J.J. Jenkins, Benjamin E. Moye, Ben Savage, Bob Moye and Forbes Kennedy all sold ice in Greenville in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Robert Greene and Oscar Hooker built an ice making factory in September 1902. Edward H. Shelburn became part owner in 1906, and they sold the plant to Messers. Hill and Johnson in 1908. Stores that sold ice or ice cream in the first half of the twentieth century included the Burton Soda Water bottling Works and Ice Cream Company; Moye’s Pharmacy; Greenville Ice and Coal Company; Lautares Ice Cream Manufacturing Company; Greenville Ice Cream Company; Velvet Ice Cream Company; Citizens Ice Company; Clarks Ice, Coal and Wood Company; and Colonial Ice Company.
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Smithville was the first community in North Carolina to advocate secession; Greenville followed Smithville on January 11, 1861, with a 100-gun salute. The citizens of Greenville, N.C. held a meeting and adopted resolutions for a Secession Convention. F.B. Satterthwaite and Bryan Grimes represented Pitt County at the Raleigh Secession Convention on May 20, 1861. About 2,000 Pitt County men joined the Confederate militia, and about the same number of black men joined the Federal militia. Pitt County’s diverse population made it a very important battleground in the war. In 1860, Pitt County’s population consisted of 7,840 whites, 127 free blacks, and 8,473 slaves. The first incident of the Civil War involving Pitt County occurred on June 5, 1862 at Tranter’s Mill, on Tranters Creek. Union troops fired shells at the rebel cavalry near Pactolus on June 9, 1862. In July 1862, Capt. Ayres’ artillery company fired on “Yankee Hall.” Federal soldiers from Washington invaded Greenville on October 9, 1862. Union Troops from New Bern under the command of Gen. Edward E. Potter marched through Greenville in July 1863, raiding and looting local businesses. They continued on to Tarboro, and upon coming back through Pitt County, they were assaulted by rebel soldiers near Falkland. Confederate soldiers chased them all the way back to New Bern. Federal troops under Capt. Graham captured Maj. John N. Whitford’s Battalion on November 5, 1863 near Haddock’s Crossroads. On December 30, 1863, rebel troops under Major Moore attacked Federal troops six miles below Greenville. Greenville women operated two hospitals for the wounded: one in the academy that is now the site of Sheppard Memorial Library and one in the Greene-Moye-Skinner house.
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