Blessed with lush, rural landscapes and small-town charm, Pitt County possesses a history that typifies the traditional Southern Experience. Once a major cotton producer, the area farmers transformed their cotton harvests in the late 1880s into tobacco,still a cash crop today in the community. Just as Pitt County is a center for both farming and education today, this volume, with over 125 images, focuses on the importance of flue-cured tobacco and learning institutions, such as the East Carolina Teachers Training School, a predecessor of East Carolina University. Pitt County: Eastern Reflections is a visual tour into the county's past, primarily the early twentieth century, when horse and buggy shared road space with the early automobile, when students of all ages studied in one-room schoolhouses across the countryside, and when the main streets were flooded with wagons full of cotton and tobacco on market days.
Blessed with lush, rural landscapes and small-town charm, Pitt County possesses a history that typifies the traditional Southern Experience. Once a major cotton producer, the area farmers transformed their cotton harvests in the late 1880s into tobacco,still a cash crop today in the community. Just as Pitt County is a center for both farming and education today, this volume, with over 125 images, focuses on the importance of flue-cured tobacco and learning institutions, such as the East Carolina Teachers Training School, a predecessor of East Carolina University. Pitt County: Eastern Reflections is a visual tour into the county's past, primarily the early twentieth century, when horse and buggy shared road space with the early automobile, when students of all ages studied in one-room schoolhouses across the countryside, and when the main streets were flooded with wagons full of cotton and tobacco on market days.
Pitt County: Eastern Reflections
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Pitt County: Eastern Reflections
128Paperback
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780738590264 |
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| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing SC |
| Publication date: | 10/07/1998 |
| Series: | Images of America Series |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d) |