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23515
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Articles from area newspapers are pulled together to tell tales from the Civil War, including the story of Bryan Buck, Civil War veteran, ready to go into the Spanish-American War in 1898. The story of W. I. Whitehurst and the part he played in the volley that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. The story of Frank, George and David Crawford, sons of Calvin Crawford, and their antedotes from the war. The story of Jesse Vincent, Reuben Kinsaul, Calvin Mills, and Jesse T. Forrest, Confederate veterans. The story of J. H. P. Bryan and his coat and knife from the war. The story of Matthew Hart, an area Civil War veteran who engaged in 17 battles and on each occasion tied a red string around his arm. The humorous story of Warren McGlawhorn, who fell in a ditch. The story of Dan Thomas, who lived and died in Pitt County, was the only Confederate to plant a flag on the enemy's works at Gettysburg. And lastly, the story of Edward Brown, who lived like a hermit and didn’t know the Civil War ended.
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23516
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Before the modern facility of Pitt Memorial Hospital was established, Doctors Joseph Smith (1889-1956) and Louis Cotton Skinner (1880-1942) operated a clinic and emergency hospital about 1921 at 123 West Third Street in the old Moye house, across from the Pitt County Courthouse. They were remembered for serving Black patients when other doctors refused to. Other early hospitals include St. Frances Hospital for black people in 1923 and Pitt General Hospital opened in 1924. The author gives a schedule of doctor’s prices for care from 1919.
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East Carolina University has many buildings named for individuals or families who played a part in establishing the school. The Ross-Lewis Gateway on Fifth Street named for Miss Kate Lewis, an original faculty member and head of the Art Department, and Miss Ola Ross, the school registrar for 43 years. Joyner Library, named for Dr. James Y. Joyner, superintendent of public instruction and the first chair of the Board of Trustees, and the Mamie E. Jenkins building named for the charter member of the English Department; and the Austin Building, named for Herbert E. Austin, charter faculty member and professor of science and geography.
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Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church, previously known as St. Paul's, formed shortly after 1883. Jarvis Methodist, named in 1907 for Thomas J. Jarvis, a former governor of North Carolina, sponsored a new Methodist church, St. James, in 1955.
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23519
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Before weather forecasts, and before hurricanes were named, a major hurricane hit the Greenville area. Said to be the worst storm to ever visit this area, the storm virtually wiped Washington, NC off the map. The storm in Greenville hit on evening of Sept. 10th and left twisted and toppled trees, torn down telephone lines and smoke stacks, flooded streets, a wrecked ferris wheel, and damaged roofs by the next morning.
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Blount-Harvey Co., Inc., once known as \"the shopping center of Eastern North Carolina,\" carried an extensive collection of goods, from farm supplies to silk spools. Blount-Harvey was the first business to purchase group insurance for its employees, first to sign a contract with MasterCard and UPS, and first to install an automatic door for its customers. The Blount-Harvey store closed in 1985.
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The Village of Yesteryear, damaged by Hurricane Floyd in the fall of 1999, reopens after restoration with money used from FEMA and the state of North Carolina. The village features a general store, post office, schoolhouse, log church and house, train depot, tobacco museum, blacksmith shop, transportation, museum, and numerous other farm buildings.
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Freeman Hemby, former slave and well-known Greenville resident, tells of his life as a slave and as a free man. Hemby died December 29, 1948, at the age of 100 and buried at Cooperfield Cemetery. The father of 14 children, Hemby outlived all of his children except three. He had 175 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, and 25 great-great grandchildren at the time of his death.
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Fred A. Olds (1847-1935) son of Lewis Poindexter Olds and Pauline E. Evans, began his career as a newspaper man in Raleigh, NC and was a colonel in the State Guard. He created the State Hall of History in 1914. The State Hall of History collection later became the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Olds died July 2, 1935, at Dorthea Dix Hospital.
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Pitt County native General Allen "Hal" Turnage (1891-1971) the son of William Jason Turnage and Ora Smith, had a distinguished career as a Marine Corps officer. He served as commander of the Third Marine Division during the Bougainville and Guam campaigns in World War II. As a Brigadier General he once was commanded the New River Air Base, Jacksonville, NC.He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ideas from leading American scientists and economists in 1950 for the year 2000 are examined; including predictions of slow population growth, the first man-made star would circle the earth, and Americans would be work a shorter work week, possibly even a 30-hour week fixed by law.
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The first venture into the use of gas for lighting in Greenville occurred in 1883 when several new stores were built with gas fittings. In 1916, J. T. Bland, superintendent of the gas plant in Washington, NC, petitioned the Greenville Aldermen for the first gas franchise in Greenville. The city in 1916 installed gas lines under all the streets before they were paved. In 1934, a gas plant was built in Greenville and when it was turned on the gas pipes leaked so bad it killed large section of grass and trees all over town. In 1927, the Greenville Gas Company and six other eastern North Carolina gas companies merged with Carolina Gas and Electric Company. In 1931, the City Aldermen put the gas plant operation under the control of the Greenville Water and Light Department. In 1956 there were 3,000 gas customers in Greenville.
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There used to be Civil War breastworks surrounding Greenville along the hillside along what is now Reade Circle. The building of the Flanagan Sylvan Amphitheater in 1956 and the building of the high rise dormitories in the late 1960’s pretty much destroyed what was left of the breastworks on the ECU campus. Kammerer gives Civil War accounts of the building of breastworks along the Tar River. There was breastwork fort built in 1863 above Greenville known as “Blue Banks.” Over the years numerous artifacts had been found in the breastworks around Greenville.
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The municipal swimming pool was the earliest form of recreation offered by Greenville before the formation of the City Recreation Department. The object of the swimming pool was to relieve the situation of drowning deaths in the Tar River, canals and farm holes. The first swimming pool was built in 1913 in the basement of the high school, located on the corner of Fifth and Reade Streets. In 1927, Mrs. J. L. Westbrook advertised that she had completed an artesian well pool and amusement park on her estate at the northeast corner of Charles and Fourteenth Streets. The Westbrook’s went into debt and the pool was offered by the Blount Brothers o the city as a municipal pool. They didn’t accept it and the Blount Brothers opened it in 1919 as the “Greenville Swimming Pool.” On Aug. 8, 1934 the Greenville Swimming Pool was dedicated and opened at Fifth and Reade Streets. In 1951 the pool was condemned and closed. There were other pools in Greenville at the Greenville Country Club, the Moose Lodge, and Elm Street Park.
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Private distilleries had long been a fixture in NC and the making of spirituous liquors appears regularly in the county records. Besides whiskey, apple brandy (called “Apple Jack”) was a popular beverage of choice and a local recipe about 1809 called for “a gallon and a half of brandy mixed with grape juice” to be served at parties. According to the 1810 NC Manufacturing Census, Pitt County had 727 stills making 29,400 gallons of whiskey and brandy worth around $12,000 annually. With all this alcohol, drunkenness was a problem. After the Civil War there was a national ban on distilling fruit brandy. The ban was lifted in 1870 and in 1871 it was reported that 65,000 gallons of fruit brandy had been made during the past season in eastern North Carolina. In 1874, Richard A. Bynum (1820-1888) of Pitt County, made such excellent brandy that it was advertised and touted by Gov. Zebulon Vance and Thomas J. Jarvis, future governor of North Carolina.
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