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34044
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The canal built in Indian Well Swamp cut by John A. Smith and Dennis C. Smith, was the diving line between Swift Creek and Chicod Townships.
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34047
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Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly
(NoCar F253 .P57), Vol. XXIV Issue No. 1-2, Feb.-May 2017,
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25689
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Pitt County has been visited by many United States presidents, including George Washington, Grover Cleveland, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter, and first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Reagan. Their visits were connected to Greenville’s location on the Tar River, exports, and East Carolina University.
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33870
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33873
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33890
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Extract of a letter from New London, Pitt Co., NC.
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33917
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33932
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24049
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In January 1937, efforts began to establish Greene Springs Park along Green Mill Run in Greenville, North Carolina. With the coming of World War II, park work ceased until the 1950s, and by 1958 the park was complete and open to the community.
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The Flanagan Buggy Company formerly occupied the corner of Fourth and Cotanche Streets in Greenville, North Carolina, a space that now houses a parking garage. The Flanagan business dates back to 1866 and has an interesting history from its establishment to the time of its closure in 1969.
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24765
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Many buildings downtown in Greenville once contained a number of prominent retailers. A site on Fifth Street first held the Glascow Evans Livery stable in 1890. Other companies used the same site, but the first major company to lease the building was Montgomery Ward in 1928. In 1932, Quinn-Miller Furniture moved in, then Belk-Tyler in 1938. Today, the building houses Crossbones Tavern and apartments.
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33733
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Mentions: James Lanier, Joel Tyson, Ambrose Jones, Robert Foreman.
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33792
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33842
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These are a series of public letters over politics by Dr. William J. Blow, William T. Marsh and George B. Singletary which led to a duel.
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33696
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Article by Jesse Lillington Jackson (1874-1969) about school houses and churches. He mentions McCoy Tripp, John Tripp, Reddin Tripp, Elias Braxton, Carrie Reeves, Jule Whichard, Heber Jackson, Elder Fred McGlohon, Herbert Ellis, George Ellis, Lottie Ellis, Felix Braxton.
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