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Greenville once was known for making the best buggies in the state. Therefore, one of the greatest buggy builders was John Flanagan, born on February 6, 1829 to Thomas and Sophie (Turnage) Flanagan. John Flanagan established his buggy company in 1866. It became quite profitable. Upon his death on July 10, 1902, his son Edward Gaskell Flanagan took over the company. In November 1907, Edward Flanagan built a new factory (picture available) on the corner of Fourth and Cotanche streets. He manufactured buggies there until 1914, when the factory became a Ford, Oakland, and Buick dealership. The site later became a parking lot.
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22965
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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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22988
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Union Carbide was a Greenville industrial landmark after it arrived as National Carbon Corporation in 1943. The first plant, which made goods for WWII, was at the intersection of 14th and Cotanche Streets and expanded several times. In 1964, they moved to their second plant at the intersection of Evans Street and Greenville Boulevard to produce batteries. Eventually the plant was closed and the building razed in 1995 to make room for a shopping center.
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22989
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This store on Evans Street was once an "uptown" Greenville landmark. Charles Thomas Munford (1862-1943), otherwise known as C.T. Munford, was a merchant, a Mason, civic leader, land developer, a longtime member of the Chamber of Commerce and Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church. He is remembered for having the first life size mannequin in town in 1902.
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The Independent Market, located on Dickinson Avenue and selling meats and groceries, was in business from 1931 to 1958. Operated by Charles J. Cannon, the interesting thing about the store is that it never sold any tobacco or alcohol.\r\nJ.G. \"Scrappy\" Proctor opened Proctor's Limited, which specialized in men's clothing, in Greenville in 1964. Before establishing his own store, Proctor had worked in two other clothing stores with Nesbitt Proctor and Curtis Perkins respectively.\r\nW.J. Smith and N.O. Van Nortwick established the North Side Lumber Company, located north of Greenville on the road to Bethel, in 1928. The lumberyard, which was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1948, was known for employing nearly 50 people and having one of the best selections around.\r\nIn 1954, L.T. Hardee and Charlie Cox established the Colonial Heights Super Market. They had a substantial parking lot for those days, accommodating as many as 80 cars. In addition, a children's clothing store was also located in the building and run by the owners' wives.\r\nIn 1933, John Allen Conway, Sr. opened the Greenville Marble and Granite Works on Memorial Drive. In 1949, Conway's son took over the business and continued providing the Greenville area with monuments and other marble wares.\r\nCharles Horne founded Horne Electric Company in 1948 on Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1964, Wilson C. Rhodes, an electrician with many years of experience, assumed ownership of the company.\r\nFounded in 1942 by W.D. Boyd, the W.D. Boyd Paint and Wallpaper Company was located on Evans Street. Specializing in aluminum siding as well as painting and wallpapering contracts, the company employed 12 people by 1965.\r\nIn 1919, H.L. Hodges, Sr. established H.L. Hodges and Company, a combination grocery and farming supply store. Later, the business changed to a hardware store. H.L. Hodges, Jr. took over the store, which now included sporting goods, in 1965.\r\nT.I. Wagner and J.E. Waldrop founded Wagner - Waldrop Motors, Inc. in 1948. Located on Dickinson Avenue, the dealership originally sold only Lincoln - Mercury but added Rambler later on to attract more customers.\r\nV.A. Merritt established V.A. Merritt and Sons in 1928. Located on Evans Street, the company sold a full line of electrical appliances.\r\n
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In 1917, the Batchelor brothers, Roy and Ed, established a men's clothing store in Greenville. They were known for keeping up an excellent stock of men's apparel and for being active in numerous civic activities, including the Greenville Golf and Country Club. Roy died in 1928 and Ed sold the business in 1956 to George Coffman, whose men's store is still one of Greenville's most renowned establishments.
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Blount-Harvey Co., Inc., once known as \"the shopping center of Eastern North Carolina,\" carried an extensive collection of goods, from farm supplies to silk spools. Blount-Harvey was the first business to purchase group insurance for its employees, first to sign a contract with MasterCard and UPS, and first to install an automatic door for its customers. The Blount-Harvey store closed in 1985.
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The following is a history of three Perkins brothers: Curtis Fleming Perkins (1899-1977), James Vance Perkins (1901-1991) and Walter Reid Perkins (1904-1993). They were leading merchants, business and community leaders in Greenville.
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Herbert Augustus White (1877-1929) was a prominent business and insurance man in Greenville. He was a local representative of the Standard Oil Company ,director of the Greenville Bank & Trust Company; vice-president of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and first president of the Home Building & Loan Association.White was also president of the Pitt County Oil Company; first president of the Standard Realty Company; and was charter member and first chairman of the Greenville Country Club. It was said that H. A. White had the first electric lights, first indoor bathtub and first radio in Greenville. In 1903, White built a home on the corner of Fifth and Greene Streets for former Gov. T. J. Jarvis and wife to live rent free. On July 2, 1908, H. A. White and wife attended the now famous groundbreaking for the East Carolina Teachers Training School. In 1901, White built a story office building at 403 Evans Street, which would later become the office of the Home Building and Loan Association in 1906. His two-story office building is still located on Evans Street uptown and his great granddaughter owns an art shop next door.
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A building on Dickinson Avenue got a renovation in purpose and style as The Lofts. Built as a wholesale grocery store by the Hooker family in 1916, it became a loft style apartment complex in 2014. The interior and exterior photos showcase modern day conveniences coexisting with a nearly century old brick and woodwork structure.
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