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A. G. Cox Middle (6-8)
Tracy Cole-Williams, Principal
School Website
252-756-3105
Ayden Elementary (K-5)
Teresa Byrum, Principal
School Website
252-746-2121
Ayden-Grifton High (9-12)
Bill Frazier, Principal
School Website
252-746-4183
Ayden Middle (6-8)
Seth Brown, Principal
School Website
252-746-3672
Belvoir Elementary (K-5)
Sandra Morris, Principal
School Website
252-752-6365
Betty Tolar, Prinicpal
School Website
252-825-3801
C. M. Eppes Middle (6-8)
Charlie Langley, Principal
School Website
252-757-2160
Glenn Joyner, Principal
School Website
252-746-6742
Creekside Elementary (K-5)
Carla Frinkso, Princpal
School Website
252-353-5253
D. H. Conley High (9-12)
Mary Carter, Principal
School Website
252-756-3440
E. B. Aycock Middle (6-8)
Julie Cary, Principal
School Website
252-756-4181
Eastern Elementary (K-5)
Nicole Smith, Principal
School Website
252-758-4813
Donna Gillam, Principal
School Website
252-756-0180
Dennis Teel, Principal
School Website
252-752-7820
Farmville Central High (9-12)
Christopher Moxley, Principal
School Website
252-753-5138
Farmville Middle (6-8)
Lionel Kato, Principal,
School Website
252-753-2116
Dr. Gloria Snead, Principal
School Website
252-752-6614
Ronda Sortino, Principal
School Website
252-524-5141
H. B. Sugg Elementary (K-2)
Valerie Galberth, Prinicpal
School Website
252-753-2671
Mike Lutz, Principal
School Website
252-355-7071
J. H. Rose High (9-12)
Dr. George Frazier, Principal
School Website
252-321-3640
North Pitt High (9-12)
Marty Baker, Principal
School Website
252-825-0054
Northwest Elementary (K-5)
Charles Chestnut, Principal
School Website
252-752-6329
Dr. Joseph Nelson, Principal
School Website
252-752-6941
Cheryl Olmsted, Principal
School Website
252-355-7879
Sadie Saulter Elementary (K-5)
Ferdonia Stewart, Principal
School Website
252-758-4621
Sam D. Bundy Elementary (3-5)
Valerie Galberth, Principal
School Website
252-753-2013
LaVette Ford, Principal
School Website
252-756-7004
South Central High (9-12)
John Coleman, Principal
School Website
252-321-3232
Jennifer Poplin, Principal
School Website
252-752-6907
Judy Beckert-Jones, Site Manager
School Website
252-752-3227
W. H. Robinson Elementary (K-5)
Tiffany Vincent, Principal
School Website
252-756-3707
Wahl-Coates Elementary (K-5)
Will Sanderson, Principal
School Website
252-752-2514
Wellcome Middle (6-8)
Jeff Theus, Principal
School Website
252-752-5938
Wintergreen Intermediate (3-5)
Dawn Singleton, Principal
School Website
252-355-2411
Wintergreen Primary (K-2)
Dawn Singleton, Princpal
School Website
252-353-5270
Allens Chapel
Al-Masjid Islamic Center and Mosque
Andrews Church
Anointed One
Ayden
Ayden
Farmville
Bethany Church
Grimesland
Boyd Memorial Presbyterian Church
Leggetts Crossroads
Brown Chapel
Burys Chapel
Grimesland
Burning
Fountain
Cherry Lane Church
Cherry Lane Free
Clemons Grove Chapel
Leggetts Crossroads
Community Chapel
Farmville
Ayden
Congregation Bayt Shalom
Coreys Chapel
Dildys Chapel
Eastern
Ayden
Ayden
English Chapel Free Will Church
Evangelistic Tabernacle
Ayden
First Born Church
Grimesland
First Christian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Robersonville West
Flemings Chapel
Good Hope Church
Grifton
Grifton United
Grifton
Grimesland
Haddock Chapel
Gardnerville
Ayden
Hayes Chapel
Leggetts Crossroads
Robersonville West
Grimesland
Holy Trinity United
Hooker Memorial Christian Church
House of Prayer
Gardnerville
Iglesia Pentecostal Unida
Immanual
Jones Chapel
Grimesland
Wilmar
Jumping
Ayden
Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witness
Latterday Saints Church
Ayden
Gardnerville
Live
Farmville
Moyes Chapel
Farmville
New Deliverance Free
Ayden
New
Robersonville East
Ayden
Our
Parkers Chapel F W B Church
Piney
Piney
Gardnerville
Pleasant
Ayden
Gardnerville
Reedy
Reid Chapel
Fountain
Gardnerville
Saint Gabriels Catholic Church
Saint James Church
Fountain
Saint James Methodist Church
Farmville
Saint Jude Church
Ayden
Saint Mary Church
Saint Pauls Episcopal Church
Saint Peter Church
Seven Holly Church
Gardnerville
Sweet Hope Church
Sycamore Chapel
Wilmar
The
The
Timothy Church
Gardnerville
Trinity Free
Grimesland
Farmville
Leggetts Crossroads
Wares Chapel
Warren Church
Grimesland
Old
Ayden
John Hardy House
The act establishing Pitt County authorized the courts to be held at the home of John Hardy until a courthouse could be built. It also directed the justices to contract for the construction of the courthouse, prison, and stocks on John Hardy's land on the south side of the Tar River, near the chapel known as Hardy's Chapel. In 1771, Martinsborough was established on Richard Evan's land, and in 1774, the courthouse, prison, and stocks were moved to Martinsborough. Court was held at the home of John Lessley until the new courthous, prison, and stocks were completed. In 1787, Martinsborough was changed to Greenesville, later shortened to Greenville, which has been the county seat ever since.
In 1714, Louis Duvall received a royal grant to the land where the first bluffs rise along the banks of the Tar River, and it was there that the first English settlement within what has become Pitt County, North Carolina was established. Duvall called his home Mount Calvert. In the 286 years since, that land has been called other names: Salter's Ferry, Boyd's Ferry, Nelsonville, and Elksville are some of them. Today it is Grimesland.
Among those early English colonists was a woman from Bristol whose brother, Edward Teach, lived in Bath. Today, Mr. Teach is more widely known as "Blackbeard," one of history's most notorious pirates and an American legend. Although most of his activities were concentrated in the Pamlico Sound, it is said that Blackbeard often climbed a cypress tree on the banks of the Tar near Grimesland to survey shipping on the river for potential plunder. A few years after Duvall died, his daughter sold Mount Calvert to Edward Salter and it soon became known as Salter's Ferry. By 1752, it contained a bustling tobacco inspection station and a warehouse. In 1768, a mail route was established between Williamsburg, Virginia and Charleston, South Carolina which passed over Salter's Ferry. This route soon developed into the main conduit for land travel between those important cities and the little settlement on the Tar River thrived.
It was during the 1760s that Dempsie Grimes came from Norfolk County in Virginia to begin a plantation called "Avon" near Salter's Ferry. His son, William Grimes, bought more land lower down the Tar River from "Avon" and he established another plantation which he called "Grimesland." William Grimes had a son named Bryan Grimes and a grandson named Bryan Grimes for whom the present-day town of Grimesland is named.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bryan Grimes, Jr. prospered as a planter. He enjoyed enough prominence and esteem to be elected as a delegate to the state convention which voted North Carolina out of the Union in May 1861 and ratified the constitution of the Confederate States of America. That same month Grimes received a major's commission in the 4th North Carolina Regiment. Although he lacked military training and possessed a quick and fiery temper, Grimes demonstrated skill, judgment and courage throughout his service with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and received rapid promotion. He commanded the 4th North Carolina at Seven Pines (where every other officer in the regiment was killed), Mechanicsville, and Chancellorsville. He led a brigade at Fredericksburg. In the Gettysburg campaign, Grimes led North Carolina infantry in the advance element during the invasion of Pennsylvania. During the retreat back into Virginia, he commanded North Carolinians fighting in the rear guard.
He distinguished himself at the fighting in the Wilderness and especially at the "Bloody Angle" during the battle of Spotsylvania after which he received promotion to brigadier general on May 19, 1864. He led a brigade in Early's Valley Campaign and the raid on Washington. After assuming the command of a division at Cedar Creek, Grimes received a second star on February 23, 1865, the last officer in the Army of Northern Virginia to receive promotion to the rank of major general. He led his division in fighting at Petersburg, Fort Stedman, Sayler's Creek, and Appomattox. When notified of Lee's surrender to Grant, Grimes's initial reaction was to take his command, march to North Carolina, join the Confederate troops already there and continue to fight, but another general officer prevailed upon him not to disgrace himself by violating a flag of truce. Grimes surrendered his division with the rest of Lee's shattered army at Appomattox Court House.
"Go home, boys," he told his troops, "and act like men, as you have always done during the war." Grimes rode back to his plantation, resumed farming, and never again took any part in politics. In 1880, he was killed by a man with whom he had a private dispute. In 1887, the little town on the banks of the Tar River first settled by Louis Duvall in 1714 was renamed in honor of Major General Bryan Grimes, Jr., and it has remained Grimesland to this day.
By David W. Trevino
Pitt County got its name from William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. William Pitt was an English statesman and orator, born in London, England. He studied at Oxford University and in 1731, Pitt joined the army. Pitt led the young "Patriot" Whigs and in 1756 became secretary of state, where he was a pro-freedom speaker in British Colonial government. Pitt County was founded in 1760 under British Colonial government. Prior to 1760, there was one large county, Beaufort County, which was split into five smaller counties, Pitt County being one of those smaller counties. Since 1970 Pitt County has operated under County Manager government.
Click Here for an excellent history of Pitt County written in 1910 by Henry T. King. Link is current as of August 2005.
- Source: J.D. Lewis - Little River, SC
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As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 133,798 people, 52,539 households, and 32,258 families residing in the county. The population density was 205 people per square mile (79/km²). There were 58,408 housing units at an average density of 90 per square mile (35/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 62.08% White, 33.65% Black or African American, 0.27% Native American, 1.08% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.80% from other races, and 1.09% from two or more races. 3.15% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 52,539 households out of which 29.90% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.40% were married couples living together, 14.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.60% were non-families. 28.30% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.02.
In the county the population was spread out with 23.60% under the age of 18, 17.50% from 18 to 24, 29.90% from 25 to 44, 19.40% from 45 to 64, and 9.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 90.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.40 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $32,868, and the median income for a family was $43,971. Males had a median income of $31,962 versus $25,290 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,243. About 13.50% of families and 20.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.60% of those under age 18 and 20.20% of those age 65 or over.
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