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Articles published in 1974 in The Daily Reflector provide Phil Carroll's, a local developer, and the late Leo Jenkins's, former chancellor of East Carolina University, visions for Greenville's growth of Greenville in 2000. Carroll envisioned a population of 80,000 to 100,000 and the formation and of medical and educational institutions, causing \"excellent growth in this area.\" Former Chancellor Jenkins believed that East Carolina would have a larger adult enrollment than college-age enrollment and that university professors would function more like counselors than instructors. Jenkins predicted that there would be no cars on the campus and that soccer would be the most popular sport.
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23513
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Christmas traditions of the past in Greenville included dances, balls and hops, late suppers, and jousting tournaments. Often on Christmas Eve, people would be out with firecrackers, tinhorns and drums, making noise and celebrating throughout the night. As part of a Christmas-time feast, a local table might include ham, barbecue, sausage, turkey, oysters, biscuits, oranges, apples, ice cream, eggnog and syllabub. Syllabub is a Southern drink, often served at Christmas gatherings, that was made of whipping cream and scuppernong wine.
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23514
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Newspaper articles in The Eastern Reflector, the Daily Reflector, Tarboro Southerner from the late 1800s and early 1900s contained stories about early families and hard-to-believe occurrences. Past articles, included Mrs. J. F. Briley's catching a 24-pound turtle with a fishing pole and line lead, and Mr. Charles Harris, a Pitt County's early settler, reported to be 122 years old upon his death in 1860.
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Articles from area newspapers are pulled together to tell tales from the Civil War, including the story of Bryan Buck, Civil War veteran, ready to go into the Spanish-American War in 1898. The story of W. I. Whitehurst and the part he played in the volley that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. The story of Frank, George and David Crawford, sons of Calvin Crawford, and their antedotes from the war. The story of Jesse Vincent, Reuben Kinsaul, Calvin Mills, and Jesse T. Forrest, Confederate veterans. The story of J. H. P. Bryan and his coat and knife from the war. The story of Matthew Hart, an area Civil War veteran who engaged in 17 battles and on each occasion tied a red string around his arm. The humorous story of Warren McGlawhorn, who fell in a ditch. The story of Dan Thomas, who lived and died in Pitt County, was the only Confederate to plant a flag on the enemy's works at Gettysburg. And lastly, the story of Edward Brown, who lived like a hermit and didn’t know the Civil War ended.
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Before the modern facility of Pitt Memorial Hospital was established, Doctors Joseph Smith (1889-1956) and Louis Cotton Skinner (1880-1942) operated a clinic and emergency hospital about 1921 at 123 West Third Street in the old Moye house, across from the Pitt County Courthouse. They were remembered for serving Black patients when other doctors refused to. Other early hospitals include St. Frances Hospital for black people in 1923 and Pitt General Hospital opened in 1924. The author gives a schedule of doctor’s prices for care from 1919.
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East Carolina University has many buildings named for individuals or families who played a part in establishing the school. The Ross-Lewis Gateway on Fifth Street named for Miss Kate Lewis, an original faculty member and head of the Art Department, and Miss Ola Ross, the school registrar for 43 years. Joyner Library, named for Dr. James Y. Joyner, superintendent of public instruction and the first chair of the Board of Trustees, and the Mamie E. Jenkins building named for the charter member of the English Department; and the Austin Building, named for Herbert E. Austin, charter faculty member and professor of science and geography.
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23518
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Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church, previously known as St. Paul's, formed shortly after 1883. Jarvis Methodist, named in 1907 for Thomas J. Jarvis, a former governor of North Carolina, sponsored a new Methodist church, St. James, in 1955.
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23519
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Before weather forecasts, and before hurricanes were named, a major hurricane hit the Greenville area. Said to be the worst storm to ever visit this area, the storm virtually wiped Washington, NC off the map. The storm in Greenville hit on evening of Sept. 10th and left twisted and toppled trees, torn down telephone lines and smoke stacks, flooded streets, a wrecked ferris wheel, and damaged roofs by the next morning.
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23520
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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 Village of Yesteryear, damaged by Hurricane Floyd in the fall of 1999, reopens after restoration with money used from FEMA and the state of North Carolina. The village features a general store, post office, schoolhouse, log church and house, train depot, tobacco museum, blacksmith shop, transportation, museum, and numerous other farm buildings.
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Freeman Hemby, former slave and well-known Greenville resident, tells of his life as a slave and as a free man. Hemby died December 29, 1948, at the age of 100 and buried at Cooperfield Cemetery. The father of 14 children, Hemby outlived all of his children except three. He had 175 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, and 25 great-great grandchildren at the time of his death.
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Fred A. Olds (1847-1935) son of Lewis Poindexter Olds and Pauline E. Evans, began his career as a newspaper man in Raleigh, NC and was a colonel in the State Guard. He created the State Hall of History in 1914. The State Hall of History collection later became the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Olds died July 2, 1935, at Dorthea Dix Hospital.
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Pitt County native General Allen "Hal" Turnage (1891-1971) the son of William Jason Turnage and Ora Smith, had a distinguished career as a Marine Corps officer. He served as commander of the Third Marine Division during the Bougainville and Guam campaigns in World War II. As a Brigadier General he once was commanded the New River Air Base, Jacksonville, NC.He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ideas from leading American scientists and economists in 1950 for the year 2000 are examined; including predictions of slow population growth, the first man-made star would circle the earth, and Americans would be work a shorter work week, possibly even a 30-hour week fixed by law.
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The first venture into the use of gas for lighting in Greenville occurred in 1883 when several new stores were built with gas fittings. In 1916, J. T. Bland, superintendent of the gas plant in Washington, NC, petitioned the Greenville Aldermen for the first gas franchise in Greenville. The city in 1916 installed gas lines under all the streets before they were paved. In 1934, a gas plant was built in Greenville and when it was turned on the gas pipes leaked so bad it killed large section of grass and trees all over town. In 1927, the Greenville Gas Company and six other eastern North Carolina gas companies merged with Carolina Gas and Electric Company. In 1931, the City Aldermen put the gas plant operation under the control of the Greenville Water and Light Department. In 1956 there were 3,000 gas customers in Greenville.
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