Record #:

22903

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In November 1760, John Simpson presented a bill to form another county from the upper region of Beaufort County to the legislature. It passed January 1, 1761, forming Pitt County. Colonel John Hardee's homed served as Pitt County's first courthouse and records office in 1761 to 1774, and also served as the local parish house for the Church of England. After the construction of a permanent courthouse, Hardee's land and historic house changed owners several times. In 1924, James E. W. Cook encouraged the county to restore the first historic courthouse; later destroyed in 1926. In 1930, a marker, erected on Highway 33 East across from the entrance to the Brook Valley Country Club, commemorates the site of the courthouse.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Oct 14-27 1987, p8-9

Subject(s):

Courthouses--Pitt County; Pitt County--Courthouses--History