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As early as 1851, Greenville citizens, such as Dr. Noah Joyner, tried to raise tobacco in Pitt County. Leon F. Evans, however, is known as the true father of tobacco in Pitt County. While traveling in Nash County in 1885, he met Mr. J. T. Seat, a tobacco farmer near Rocky Mount, NC. Mr. Seat agreed to come to Pitt County to talk to the local farmers about raising tobacco. A. A. Forbes, Leon F. Evans, Jacob Joyner, G. F. Evans, and T. J. Stancill contracted with Mr. Seat for assistance the following year. The first curing barns were constructed by Leon F. Evans in 1886. At first, the farmers had to carry their product by wagon to markets in Henderson, Oxford and Wilson. R. J. Cobb and O. L. Joyner built the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse in 1891 to remedy this dilemma. O. L. Joyner and Alex Heilbroner built the Eastern Tobacco Warehouse in 1892. E. A. Moye and Ola Forbes built the Planters Warehouse in 1895, and C. D. Rountree, Wiley Brown and McG. Ernul built the Star Warehouse.
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