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What is now the Farmville area was once dotted with small communities such as “Grimmersburg,” “Maysville,“ and “Joyner’s Crossroads.” In 1850, the Greenville, Wilson and Raleigh Plank Road was built through the community known as “Joynerville,” and a new place developed known as “Marlboro.” A post office was established as “Marlboro” on Sept. 27, 1853 with James Joyner as postmaster. The “Marlboro Guards” were the third company of volunteer troops raised in Pitt County in 1861. In 1874, Marlboro consisted of two dry goods stores, a drug store, a grocery store and bar, a carriage factory and various workshops. Marlboro was incorporated on Feb. 16, 1875, but Farmville eventually spread to take over Marlboro into its corporate limits.
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33880
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A newspaperman visited Marlboro and described it by mentioning that James Joyner owned most everything there; the stores of James Joyner, A. M. Allen and E. Waters; and that William Parker ran the saw and gristmill.
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