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30525
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The Imperial Tobacco Company building, built in the early 1900s of Dickinson Avenue, was at one time one of the Greenville tobacco markets largest buyers of tobacco for export. Abandoned by the company in 1978, the building, which covered two city blocks, was slated to be restored and renovated into a long awaited arts and community venue. In the midst of getting the beginning legal work finished, the building tragically burned down from arson. on April 17, 2008. In 2007, local artist Matthew Cook began a series of paintings using the Imperial Tobacco Company as his subject, painting views from all over town. The structure's fiery death became the subject of one last painting to end the series. The article gives a portfolio of some the paintings in the series.
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24814
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Since the 1840’s there has been a conflict between those cutting down and those planting trees in Greenville. Every time trees were planted, they were eventually cut down or damaged. In 1990, this problem was patched with the formation of ReLeaf. ReLeaf is a non-profit organization that plants and protects trees using donations from the community.
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Artist Daniel Peoples moved to Greenville to start a custom cabinet shop, but instead, started Tyson Creek Studios to fulfill his passion for art and design. Daniel is developing an exclusive line of furniture created as functional art with a heavy emphasis on design.
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36213
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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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30527
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The following is taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing drawings of old Greenville buildings that have been razed. The drawing and short history depicts the G. B. W. Hadley house on Evans Street; the Memorial Baptist Church on Greene Street; the Pitt County Jail on Third Street; the John L. Wooten House on Greene Street; the Farmers Bank on Dickinson Avenue; and the Charles S. Forbes house on Evans Street.
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30530
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The following is taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing drawings of old Greenville buildings that have been razed. The drawing and short history depicts the Woman's Club on Third Street; Evans Street 1914; Yellowley-Harrington house on Fourth Street; the Candlewick Inn; the Dr. Elbert A. Moye house; the old Greenville High School; and J. R. and J. G. Moye Merchandise Emporium on Evans Street.
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The following is taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing drawings of old Greenville buildings that have been razed. The drawing and short history depicts the R. L. Smith house on Evans Street; the National Guard Armory on Evans Street; the H. G. Edwards building on Evans Street; the Sycamore Hill Baptist Church on First Street; the Pitt General Hospital on Johnston Street; and the O'Hagan-Laughinghouse house on Pitt Street.
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25686
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Anne Grimes’ company Harvest Times Food Inc. is best known for their flat dumpling strips. The dumplings were first sold at Anne’s bakery called the Rolling Pin, and mass produced using a machine Anne designed and built in Japan. Anne now helps other entrepreneurs start businesses in Greenville.
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41224
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Spotlighting musical legends such as Joe Morris, Amzi Ellington, Bill Riggins, Billy Taylor, and Billy Myles was a way to acknowledge contributors to the Big Band genre perhaps unknown outside of North Carolina.
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36215
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Missed was Greenville’s opportunity to produce the first black player in Major League baseball: David Barnhill, Jr. A top pitcher for teams such as the Miami Giants and New York Cubans, Barnhill’s career in baseball spanned from 1936-1953.
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30532
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The following drawings by Roger Kammerer were taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing the former Pitt County Court Houses and short history of each.
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25689
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Pitt County has been visited by many United States presidents, including George Washington, Grover Cleveland, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter, and first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Reagan. Their visits were connected to Greenville’s location on the Tar River, exports, and East Carolina University.
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With the arrival of autumn comes the arrival of pumpkin beer. These beers include many traditional fall spices such as nutmeg and have ranging alcohol content. There are many different brewers of these pumpkin beers, some better than others.
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In 2011, Blackbeard’s flagship had artifacts such as a three footed cauldron put on display at the NC Maritime Museum in Beaufort. Understanding the true measure of the treasure, though, entailed viewing how such items, sunk in the briny deep for nearly three centuries, were conserved by the QAR Conservation Lab.
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In January 1937, efforts began to establish Greene Springs Park along Green Mill Run in Greenville, North Carolina. With the coming of World War II, park work ceased until the 1950s, and by 1958 the park was complete and open to the community.
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