Record #:

22863

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

As early as 1908, Ben Higgs got a 99 year lease of the Greenville riverfront for developing a waterway with a terminal at Greenville. Efforts were being made to transform Greenville into a port. The Tar River was dredged from Washington to Hardee’s Creek in 1939, 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The Port Terminal Commission acquired 45 acres on Hardees Creek for a warehouse beside the landing. The first freighter, The Eldora, from Savannah with sugar, landed at Port Terminal on October 12, 1940. Port Terminal operated until March 1942. The channel was re-dredged in 1949. In 1908, Greenville citizens attempted to establish a port. Port Terminal, located on the Tar River near Hardee's Creek, later became the site of the port, opening on October 12, 1940, and operating until March 1942.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Feb 28-Mar 13 1990, p6, il

Subject(s):

Greenville--History--Tar River; Tar River--Greenville