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The Greenville Book Clubs would meet to not only discuss books, but would encourage each other. The book club gave women a place to discuss the politics of the day and together make a difference in their community, State and country. On April 15, 1910, a group of ladies gathered at the home of Mrs. G. W. Baker on West Fifth Street to form a book club known as “The Ladies of the Round Table.” It was the third book club in Greenville. The Ladies of the Round Table Book Club was limited to 24 members to keep meetings intimate and manageable. They were sometimes referred to as the “high brow club” because most of its members were college graduates, which was unusual for that time. In 1938, the club’s name was shortened to “The Round Table.” The Round Table celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 1960 and celebrated its 75th Anniversary on April 9, 1985 with a luncheon and ceremony at the Greenville Country Club.
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In March 1915, The Greenville Chero-Cola Bottling Company opened at 708 Dickinson Avenue with owners Whit J. Hardee, pres.; Cary M. Warren, sect-treas.; and R. T. Cox. It was the third Chero-Cola Bottling plant built in NC. They bottled drink flavors of orange, grape, ginger ale, strawberry and root beer. The plant did not use city water (which was from the river) and had their own 92 foot well. In 1919, Samuel E. Gates and Whit J. Hardee came together and built a new building for the Chero-Cola Bottling Company with three storefronts at 712-714-716 Dickinson Avenue, known as the Gates-Hardee Building. In 1925, the Chero-Cola Bottling Company changed names to the “Nehi” Bottling Company. In the 1930’s the name changed again to the “Royal Crown-Nehi Bottling Company.” In 1957, the Royal Crown-Nehi Bottling Company opened a new plant on Mumford Road. After the bottling company left the Gates-Hardee Building, the space became the home of the Renfrew Printing Company. The building changed hands several times until bought by Ryan Webb in 2007. Ryan Webb, owner of the graphic design firm Seven By Design, is the publisher and editor of the Greenville Times Magazine.
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Kammerer puts together a variety of interesting stories that include the story from 1915, when a daredevil climbed to the top of the dome of the Pitt County Court House using only his hands and feet. The story from 1871 of a man named Edward Brown who hid in the swamps to avoid the draft in the Civil War. He was discovered in animal skins without the knowledge the war had ended years before. In 1925, a meteor crashed on the farm of J. E. Jones near St. John’s Church. A meteor crashed near Farmville, NC and Hookerton, NC in 1924. The fragment recovered near Farmville was given to the State Museum. In 1893, Larry Heilbroner was the Greenville weather observer and displayed weather flags on a flagpole at the newspaper office. There is a tale from 1875 about how General Bryan Grimes kept snakes out of his yard. In 1967, an Atlantic Christian student had an encounter with a UFO near Farmville, NC.
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The Hines Building, located at 901-903 Dickinson Avenue was built in 1915 by James M. Hines (1890-1927 local business man. There were businesses on the first floor and apartments and dance hall on the second floor. Hines came to Greenville in 1911 and was involved in numerous businesses such as sawmills, bottling business, automobile and garage business, poultry farm and dairy. The Hines Building was once home to the Coca Cola Bottling Works; a bank; Order of Red Men Lodge; The Strand Theatre; The Busy Bee Café; Pitt FCX Service; The Friendly Furniture; Ken’ Furniture; and Bill McDonald’s Karate School.``
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The Hooker and Anthony/Diener’s Bakery Building, located at 815-1817 Dickinson Avenue was built in 1912 by Thomas Menan Hooker and P. T. Anthony, wholesale grocers, as their main office and storehouse. Thomas Menan Hooker (1875-1920) in business with William A. Teel, started the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Greenville in 1908. Over the years the building was home to the Hooker Wholesale Company; Railroad Express Office; NC Employment Security Commission; Peoples Bakery (Diener’s Bakery); Eastern Recording Studio; Copeland’s Cabinet Shop; and Cable and Craft Yarns. The building was bought and renovated in 2003 by Greg and Stacy Jarrell.
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In 1914 the NC General Assembly authorized the establishment of the “Recorders Court of Pitt County,” after petitions from lawyers and judges to them for speeding up trials for misdemeanor cases. After the establishment of the new Recorders Court, it took over civil cases that were formerly tried by jury in Superior Court. The first cases were tried in Pitt County Recorder’s Court on Apr. 12, 1914 with Frank M. Wooten (1875-1941) first judge of the court. The next judges included Lewis Ginter Cooper (1891-1963); William Lipscombe Whedbee (1904-1977); and Dink James (1901-1985).
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In 1881, William E. Fountain, a leading businessman of Tarboro, NC, built a telegraph line from Tarboro to Greenville. In 1896, the first telephone company got rights to operate in Greenville. In 1899, W. B. Wilson owned the first desk phone in town and in 1901 the first pay phone was located in Bryan Nichols drug store. In 1915, the Home Telephone Company built the large two story triangular brick office building on the corner of Washington Street and Dickinson Avenue. This beautiful building was torn down in 1975. In 1939, the telephone exchange was converted to the local dial system with 2,031 telephones in service.
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Once called “Bell's Ferry,” and “Skinhead,” the small town of Grifton is located on both sides of Contentnea Creek (known locally as Mocassin River). In 1875, a post office was established there known as “Bell’s Ferry,” with Cicero M. A. Griffin named first postmaster. In 1889, the legislature changed the town's name to “Grifton,” in honor of Cicero M. A. Griffin and made it official on January 1, 1890. Following the name change, the railroad came through Pitt County and directly through Grifton. The railroad stimulated the development of businesses and transformed the town. At one time Grifton sat in three townships, Contentnea and Swift Creek in Pitt County and Contentnea Neck in Lenoir County. It was in two senatorial districts, two judicial districts, and two congressional districts. It even had three township constables exercising authority over their respective parts of town.
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The author recalls visits to Greenville by famous people such as Edward R. Murrow, who visited several times. In March 1968, Barry Goldwater, Republican presidential candidate, spoke at ECU. Other politicians to visit were: Mrs. Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan and George Wallace in 1976. Some of the sports greats that have come through Greenville were: Brian Piccolo, Terry Bradshaw, Mercury Morris and Artis Gilmole. Mark Spitz was here several times during swimming competitions and while here in 1968, ECU Swim coach, Ray Scharf, recognized Spitz as a potential super athlete. Scharf tried to recruit Spitz for the ECU Swim Team, but Spitz went to Indiana University instead. Spitz went to the Mexico Olympic Games and did poorly. He went on to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and came away with seven Gold Medals and world records.
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“The Roxy,” one of the last Art Deco buildings left in Greenville, is located at 629 Albemarle Avenue. The story began in 1947 when Jasper L. Tripp purchased the lot and formed “The Roxy Theatre, Inc.” with Roy L. Tripp and J. R. Cullifer. They immediately set about building a theatre for black patrons which was completed in 1948.
John W. Warner, who managed the older “Plaza Theatre” on Albemarle Ave. was also a silent partner in the Roxy. Warner made several black films and eventually owned the Roxy Theatre. The theatre was leased in 1975 to Bill (Shep) Shepard and Buddy Alcorn, who turned the Roxy into a center of the arts, neighborhood development and popular parties. The Roxy Theatre building was bought in 1979 by William Myles Nobles, Greenville native and famous national songwriter active in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
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Since 1960 there were efforts by ECU to build a new football stadium because the old college stadium had grown too small for their needs. The official campaign for a new stadium began on Oct. 7, 1961 at a dinner of the Society of Buccaneers, an alumni booster organization. Through the efforts of Booger Scales and the financial backing of the Ficklen family, ground was broken for the stadium on May 3, 1962. In 1963 the stadium was finished and formally dedicated on Sept. 21, 1963 in honor of James S. Ficklen. The second portion of Ficklen Stadium was dedicated in September 1968. In 1991, $1.6 million in renovations and repairs were done to the stadium. The stadium was renamed Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in honor of donors Ronald and Mary Ellen Dowdy.
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Dubbed as "Greenville's greatest contribution to the world," Robert Lee Humber, Jr. (1898-1970) was a native son of Greenville, graduated from Wake Forest, attended Harvard University, volunteered for World War I, and was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. After the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, Humber and his family returned to Greenville from Europe where he single-handedly launched a "movement" for World Federation. Because of that movement, the NC General Assembly passed his resolution in 1941, becoming the first legislative body in history to endorse World Federation. Humber traveled to other states over a period of ten years, and as a result, his resolution was adopted by 16 more states. In his studies abroad and at home, Humber developed an appreciation for the arts, and established the NC Museum of Art. He served on dozens of councils and commissions, helped establish the NC Community College system, the NC Symphony, and was President of the Pitt County Historical Society from 1964 to 1968.
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This hurricane, which was before forecasts, weather reports and names, hit eastern North Carolina with a devastating blow and virtually washed Washington, NC off the map. The storm hit Greenville after midnight on Sept. 2nd and never abated until after 10:00 that morning. The storm left widespread damage and flooding across Greenville. News coming in from every section out from Greenville unanimously proclaimed the storm the worst ever known in these parts. Bridges were washed out and the flooding of fields and loss of livestock was said to be appalling. In Farmville, NC, a warehouse collapsed, killing two boys inside.
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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 of the letters.
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The following is a history of three Perkins brothers: Curtis Fleming Perkins (1899-1977), James Vance Perkins (1901-1991) and Walter Reid Perkins (1904-1993). They were leading merchants, business and community leaders in Greenville.
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