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1.A History of Pactolus by Kammerer, Roger Greenville Times / Pitt's Past Vol. Issue , Dec 7-20 1988
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Pactolus is a rather small town in eastern Pitt County. Named about 1770 by a school teacher named Lincoln, it was not until May 30, 1832, that Pactolus was granted a post office. Churchill Perkins the leading early merchant, served as the postmaster. The first business for the town was started in 1840. There were two early academies at Pactolus, the Jordan Plains Academy in 1831 and the Midway Male and Female academy in 1849. Kammerer gives the history of some of the leading citizens and merchants like Henry Irwin Toole, James R. Davenport and R. R. Fleming. In 1892, the rail road came through Pactolus and the depot burned several times. Prohibition caused a divide and the town of Maupin was created in 1905 until its charter was revoked in 1911.
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23499
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In an interview in 1974, two Pactolus residents, sisters Miss Pattie and Miss Sydney Davenport, recalled the days of their youth in Pactolus at the turn of the century. They recalled the steamboats and river traffic; tar beds at Yankee Hall; and early education. Their father, James R. Davenport, was a leading merchant in Pactolus and had a blacksmiths shop. The ladies recalled early entertainment and picnics at Yankee Hall. In the early 1900s, there were five and six doctors in Pactolus. They also recalled coming to Greenville to shop and the mud coming over the axle of the buggy on Main Street.
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