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33556
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Jesse L. Jackson spoke of early schools in Craven and Pitt Counties; Frank E. Brooks gives a history of Greenville in the 1880/90’s; and Mrs. Pearl Johnston gives a history of Farmville and the post office in the 1890’s.
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33566
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Mentions that L. W. Lawrence was witness to the hanging of Mary Hanrahan, slave of Walter Hanrahan, of Hanrahan Quarters (Bell’s Fork). Also mentions a hanging tree at the old Court House at Col. John Hardee’s house. Mentions a negro woman named Rose who was publically burned at the Court House for the murder of her mistress.
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33596
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33430
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Mentions Thomas Bonner, Richard Caswell, John Simpson, William Wilson, Blount’s Ford on Little Contentnea, and Luke White.
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33432
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Martinsborough, now Greenville, NC, was laid out on the land of Richard Evans. Mentions Charles Forbes, Wyroitt Ormond, Henry Ellis and George Evans.
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In 1926 information came to light about John Henry Powell, a Pitt County native, sailor, soldier, railroader and adventurer who was a soldier for Queen Victoria in India. Powell was from Bell’s Ferry (Grifton) and ran away from home and worked on American and British ships for many years. He had many unique and frightening stories. Powell ended his globe-trotting in India following a mutiny aboard a British ship in the Indian Ocean. He joined the British Army in Calcutta and fought in several campaigns in the Himalayas and western Pakistan. He then worked as a railway engineer on lines across India. Powell then returned to North Carolina for a visit in July 1927 and went to Hopewell, VA to see his elderly mother and brother who were still alive. Powell was planning to move back to North Carolina from India with his children.
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33261
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23675
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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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33215
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23347
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Kammerer gives a history of the early years of Pitt County's formation. The present land of Pitt County was created as Bath County in 1696, dividing into Beaufort County in 1712, and formed into Pitt County in 1760. Pitt County was named in honor of William Pitt, the elder, Earl of Chatham, who was then Prime Minister of England.
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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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32884
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32894
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23415
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These are excerpts from a book to be published in the future entitled “The Boy With America In His Eyes, and other Strange Tales of North Carolina,” by Tom Painter and Roger Kammerer. These stories include: In 1888, Capt. Lorenzo Willis and crew killed a monster shark in Carteret County, NC,18 feet long, 8 feet across the breast and two tons in weight after a two-hour fight; Six-toed Marines in WWII causes issues; In 1898, many families in Rutherford County gave their children strange names like Zaluski, Quitina Quiltina Quinn, and Linsco; an Indian skeleton in a canoe was found in a marl bed in Pitt County in 1878; in 1954, Mrs. G. S. Thomas of Rocky Mount, NC, the only surviving daughter left in North Carolina of the War of 1812; in 1899, there was evidence of the practice of drawing a witch on a cypress tree and shooting it with silver bullets to remove an evil spell in Sampson County, NC; and a boy with America in the pupils of his eyes from Greene County, NC in 1894.
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32751
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List of Merchants and Taverns paying their taxes.
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