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32366
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Jesse A. B. Cooper Bible (1802-1880) (includes Sorey, Hill);
Benjamin F. Cobb Bible (1841-1971) (includes Whitehurst);
Robert Wall Bible (1802-1966) (includes Edwards);
Thomas Cook Record (1748-1790) (includes Bowen);
Gwaltney Record (1814-1820).
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33218
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Mentions: John G. Rives murdered Theodore Norfleet; Levi Dawson, Sr. and Levi Dawson, Jr. murdered a black man; Frank Bell and Reuben Harris murdered John A. Riley.
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22794
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Edward and Robert Salter operated the first store in Greenville, originally called Martinsborough, in 1776. In Nov. 1778, George Wolfenden advertised he had erected a fulling mill to dye cloth about 10 miles above Red Banks. In the tour journal of William Attmore in 1787, he described Greenville as a village consisting of about fifteen families and a place of some trade. Merchants mentioned include Josiah Wright, James Easton, Reading Blount, Holland Johnston, Grove Wright, James Stewart, John A. Judkins, Franklin Gorham and Benjamin M. Selby. The article discusses other businesses that developed through the 1830s.
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22795
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Pitt Academy was chartered in 1786 and built in Greenville shortly thereafter. Greenville Academy was chartered in 1814. In 1830, the Greenville Female Academy was formed. It was located on the corner of Second and Greene streets. Sometime in 1835, a male academy, located where the Sheppard Memorial Library stands, was established. On September 1, 1885, the Greenville Male and Female Institute (picture available) opened on Dickinson Avenue. It later merged and was transformed into the Pitt Female Seminary.
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22796
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Started in 1948 by fire-chief George Gardner, he started a public campaign to raise donations from individuals and area businesses for $4,500 worth of equipment. With this money he purchased a 1948 panel truck, iron lung, a hospital type oxygen tent and small tools. The rescue Squad was operated by the Fire Department and by donations only. As the calls grew, in 1955 the Junior Jaycees and Fire Department sponsored the formation of a Volunteer Rescue Squad composed of four firemen and 10 volunteers. In 1959, a Rescue Squad annex was dedicated beside the central Fire Station and was showered with gifts of equipment by area businesses. The Greenville Rescue Squad was recognized as the best in the State and was one of the best on the eastern seaboard.
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22797
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Formerly located at the intersection of First and Greene streets in Greenville, this church has had a very important history. Begun in the winter of 1865, with 22 members, it was first known as the "African Baptist Church" until the early 1880s. Then known as “Sycamore Hill Baptist Church,” Sam Perry was its first minister followed by Austin Flood. A stately brick church building was built in 1916 and dedicated in July 1917. The Rev. Dr. J. A. Nimmo served as pastor from 1928 to 1961. In Oct. 1965 the church celebrated its 100th year anniversary with two weeks of special services. The Church was forced to be sold to the Redevelopment Commission and in 1968 they bought and moved to the former Eighth Street Christian Church. Tragically, in February 1969 some evil-minded person fire bombed the old brick church building and Greenville lost forever another gem of its architectural history.
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22798
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Greenville has a quite long history of garden clubs and societies. The first can be traced back to the 1925 Greenville Garden Club, which was a member of the Garden Club of North Carolina Incorporated until it received autonomy in 1963. Other clubs in Greenville were founded without formal connection with the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc. The Lakewood Pines Garden Club (1955), Brookgreen Garden Club (1958), and Dig and Delve Garden Club (circa 1959) all received charters. The Home Pride Garden Club, the Elmhurst Garden Club, and the Grassroots Garden Club were organized in 1965.
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22799
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The first automobile in Greenville, an Oldsmobile owned by Robert Greene, appeared in April 1903. The second car was owned by Fred Forbes and the third car was owned by Fred Quinerly, of Kinston and Greenville. Mrs. Mattie Moye Gaylord of Greenville has the distinction of being the first local woman to drive a car, a Reo, owned by her father. In 1909, State Law required a $3.00 permit to drive. The State Speed Limit was 8 miles an hour for closely settled communities, 12 miles an hour in residential areas and 25 miles per hour for County highways. Greenville also adopted its first Automobile Ordinance in 1909 of 10 miles per hour in town, with a $5.00 penalty for speeding.
In 1921, Pitt County car owners spent more money on their cars than on education--$89.00 on cars versus $4.00 on schools. The last horse posts and troughs in Pitt County were finally removed in 1959.
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22800
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Kammerer relates several odd tales from Pitt County's past. One Greenville resident, James O. Bond, found a shell clump at the beach in 1973 and took it home. In 1979 he decided to open it and found an ancient Roman coin from Claudius I. In 1951 the Greenville City Aldermen questioned the purchase of a case of sardines by the Street Department. C. K. Beatty, department head explained that they used the sardines with rat poison and molasses to control rats. People still use "Lard Stands," once to store lard and now as large flower pots. A nine-year-old hero named Dickie Haar, son of Dr. Fred B. Harr, saved Roy Tripp Jr., a one and a half year old boy from drowning when he fell off a pier in Bayboro. Dickie was honored on the radio and on the Abbott and Costello Show, of which he received numerous gifts. Judge Charles Whedbee laid down an unusual sentence in 1959 when a local boy had to serve punishment in a "Graveyard Stint." And finally, "Cheated Taste Buds" occurred when a baby ruined chicken on the grill.
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22801
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Located on the southwest corner of Third and Evans streets, the Rialto Block was built in 1896 by Joseph P. Elliot & Brother of Baltimore, MD. The block contained numerous stores which burned in 1897 and was rebuilt. The corner building of the Rialto was home to The Daily Reflector from 1901 until 1956. It later became Biggs Drug Store, then Hargett’s Drug Store, and after a number of businesses, reopened as Courtside Café.
In 1896, Joseph P. Elliot and his brother built the Rialto, located on the southwest corner of Third and Evans Streets, to provide a brick block for all the Elliot brothers' many stores. One section housed The Daily Reflector offices from January 1901 until 1956. The Daily Reflector's move in 1957 reduced the building to one-story and it is now a cafe.
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Named after the town's first merchant, Robert A. Fountain, this small town is located west of Greenville. In 1901, the East Carolina Railroad put a depot near Fountain’s store and called it “Reba.” This community became Fountain after the establishment of a post office there on January 15, 1902, with R. A. Fountain as postmaster. Fountain was incorporated as a town in 1903 and by 1910, was a bustling commercial center with 126 people. A fire in 1907 destroyed all the stores and they were rebuilt with brick. In 1912, a Presbyterian Church was organized. The first graded school for the town had 150 pupils in 1917. The Fountain Fire Department was organized in 1937 and the East Carolina Railroad closed in 1955.
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22803
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Several very small towns in Pitt County are now forgotten to history. Kammerer gives a series of small historical sketches of these lost places. Coxville was a small town that existed from 1850 to 1906. It was named for William Cox and his store. Jolly Old Field was, in the early 1880s, an important steamboat port along the Contentnea Creek. However, the coming of the railroad in 1890 made river commerce obsolete, and the community died. Hanrahan, named after James A. Hanrahan (1831-1891), had a post office from March 10, 1879, until July 13, 1889. This small town reestablished its post office in April 1898. Another small town might have the distinction of having the shortest-lived post office. Blount Hall, the ancestral home of the Blount family, had a post office from January 15, 1833, until September 6, 1833.
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22804
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Kammerer relates a story from 1925 as told by Lucy Cherry Crisp, a noted writer from Falkland. Crisp interviewed Aleck Corbett, an ex-slave from Falkland, who recalled several interesting stories about Pitt County before and directly after the Civil War. One of these stories describes Tom Dupree, a slave owner who killed a Yankee soldier who was plundering his stables. Terrified, Dupree fled and lived in a cave the size of a large bed quilt, on a creek near his house for several months. Corbett said the cave still existed in 1925.
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There was once a great deal of sentiment associated with hogs, especially at hog killing time in the old days. Old timers recall sweet recollections of the time they could sit on a piece of wood, with a juicy fragrant spare rib or piece of hog liver, broiled in glowing coals, in one hand and a large cooked sweet potato in the other. Kammerer presents a local writer’s descriptive narrative from 1882 expressing his fondness for events around a hog killing.
The slaughter of hogs carried out in modern slaughterhouses does not carry the same \"fondness\" as older hog killings. In an 1882 descriptive narrative, a local writer expresses his fondness for such social events.
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There have been several swimming pools in the area. In 1913, the first pool was built in the high school basement at Fifth and Reade Streets. It was opened to the public in 1917. A wealthy benefactor, Mrs. J.L. Westbrook, then opened a pool on her estate in 1927 at the corner of Fourteenth and Charles Streets. Known as the Westbrook Pool and Amusement Park, it later was called Westbrook's Jewel Box. The Blount brothers, M.K. and F.L. Blount then got it for debt and in 1929 called it the Greenville Swimming Pool. In 1934, the city opened a pool on Fifth Street and Reade Streets. Owing to health hazards, the pool had to close in 1951. Subsequently, people flocked to the Meadowbrook Beach and other pools at the Greenville Country Club, Elm Street Park and Moose Lodge. In 1975 a new municipal pool was opened at Guy Smith Stadium.
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