Record #:

22803

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Several very small towns in Pitt County are now forgotten to history. Kammerer gives a series of small historical sketches of these lost places. Coxville was a small town that existed from 1850 to 1906. It was named for William Cox and his store. Jolly Old Field was, in the early 1880s, an important steamboat port along the Contentnea Creek. However, the coming of the railroad in 1890 made river commerce obsolete, and the community died. Hanrahan, named after James A. Hanrahan (1831-1891), had a post office from March 10, 1879, until July 13, 1889. This small town reestablished its post office in April 1898. Another small town might have the distinction of having the shortest-lived post office. Blount Hall, the ancestral home of the Blount family, had a post office from January 15, 1833, until September 6, 1833.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 27-May 10 1994, p9

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History--Towns