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22903
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In November 1760, John Simpson presented a bill to form another county from the upper region of Beaufort County to the legislature. It passed January 1, 1761, forming Pitt County. Colonel John Hardee's homed served as Pitt County's first courthouse and records office in 1761 to 1774, and also served as the local parish house for the Church of England. After the construction of a permanent courthouse, Hardee's land and historic house changed owners several times. In 1924, James E. W. Cook encouraged the county to restore the first historic courthouse; later destroyed in 1926. In 1930, a marker, erected on Highway 33 East across from the entrance to the Brook Valley Country Club, commemorates the site of the courthouse.
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22947
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The first courthouse (picture available) was a house built by 1761. The site is located on Highway 33 East, in adjacent to the entrance of the Brook Valley subdivision. The second courthouse, built by 1775, was on the corner of Evans and Third streets. The third was completed in 1834 on Evans Street. A man named Croom who was trying to destroy a will inside it burned it in 1858. The fourth courthouse took a long time to complete. It was not finished until 1877. It was destroyed by fire on February 24, 1910. The fifth courthouse (picture available) is currently located downtown. Its 1,300-pound cornerstone was laid on January 26, 1911.
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22976
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Pitt County's first courthouse was located on what is now Highway 33 East, across from the entrance to the Brook Valley subdivision. Starting in 1924, a campaign was begun to preserve the old house, which had served as the courthouse from 1760 until 1774. These efforts failed, and the house was torn down in 1926. In October 1930, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a marker at the site to commemorate the historic structure.
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22979
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The Pitt County Courthouse, located on Third Street between Evans and Washington streets, was completed in 1911. The Board of County Commissioners collected historical artifacts to be placed in the cornerstone. On the morning of Jan. 26, 1911, with no ceremony, a few people gathered to watch the laying of the cornerstone in the northeast corner of the building. The cornerstone, made of Georgia Creole marble, weighed 1300 pounds and had a hallow underneath to hold the sealed copper box containing the historical artifacts.
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23417
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The Act that created Pitt County on January 1, 1761 also called for the creation of a courthouse, prison, and stocks on John Hardee's land who also donated his house as the first courthouse of Pitt County. An Act of the State Assembly in 1775 appointed George Evans, Charles Forbes, Henry Ellis, Benjamin May, and William Roberson to oversee the building of a new courthouse, completed in Martinsborough around 1776. Following a petition by Pitt County to implement an annual tax to build a third courthouse in 1789, the government appointed James Armstrong, Shadrach Allen, John Moye, Arthur Forbes, Samuel Simpson, Benjamin Bell, and William Blount to oversee the process. The builders completed the third courthouse about 1792 on the courthouse square at the corner of Evans and Third Street. George Eason, James Blow, Bryan Grimes, Goold Hoyt and John Norcott commissioned Goold Hoyt to build the fourth courthouse, completed in 1834. A man named Croom burned this courthouse down on January 7, 1858 in order to destroy a will. A Pitt County committee awarded the contract to Dabney Cosbey to build the fifth courthouse in August 1858, though the courthouse was not completed until 1877. This courthouse burned down on February 24, 1910. The architectural firm of Milburn and Heister of Baltimore Maryland designed the sixth and final courthouse, built in 1911.
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