Blessed with lush, rural landscapes and small-town charm, PittCounty possesses a history that typifies the traditional Southernexperience. Once a major cotton producer, the area farmerstransformed their cotton harvests in the late 1880s into tobacco,still a cash crop today in the community. Just as Pitt County is acenter for both farming and education today, this volume, with over125 images, focuses on the importance of flue-cured tobacco andlearning institutions, such as the East Carolina Teachers TrainingSchool, a predecessor of East Carolina University.Pitt County: Eastern Reflections is a visual tour into the county'spast, primarily the early twentieth century, when horse and buggyshared road space with the early automobile, when students of allages studied in one-room schoolhouses across the countryside, andwhen the main streets were flooded with wagons full of cottonand tobacco on market days. You will meet early Pitt Countyfamilies, relax on front-porch rocking chairs, watch parades passby along downtown streets, and view beautiful homes and farms incommunities like Greenville, Farmville, and Bethel.
Author Mary Boccaccio blends informative text with remarkable images to create an impression of Pitt County's past that captures the spirit of this special place and its hard-working people.