Record #:

22861

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In this group of local stories, marl and cottonseed were used as fertilizers. Benjamin Briley was the first man in Pitt County to find marl on his farm, followed by Josiah Barrett and Benjamin Streeter. Joshua Patrick was the first person to use cotton seed as fertilizer. About 1825, there were two cotton gins in Greenville, one standing along what is now Dickinson Avenue. The Tar River's big freezes are also discussed. In 1876-1877, a big snow of eighteen to twenty inches remained on the ground from around Christmas until mid-January. On February 11, 1889, Greenville received ten and one-half inches of snow with a temperature of eleven degrees; two days later, the temperature dropped to two degrees below zero. In 1899, there was a line of tornados which swept through northern Pitt County leaving a trail of wreckage. And lastly, the story from 1898 of the runaway horse and wagon of J. D. Carroll and all the mayhem it caused.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Mar 28-Apr 10 1990, p5

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History