Greenville, North Carolina

Greetings from Greenville, North Carolina! Greenville began as a settlement on the Tar River known as Martinsborough, named after Royal Governor Josiah Martin.  In 1787, the North Carolina General Assembly renamed the town Greensville, after Revolutionary War hero Nathaniel Greene. The name was later shortened to Greenville. During the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries, the town of Greenville was primarily a tar and turpentine manufacturer (George Washington watched tar being made in Greenville in 1791 during his Southern Tour), as well as the county seat of Pitt County. After a bridge was built over the Tar River around 1830, Greenville became a manufacturing center, with a cotton gin and several small industries making carriages, guns, and other products.  During the Civil War, the town served as a Confederate hospital and endured several skirmishes between Confederate and Union troops. After the Civil War ended, Greenville suffered like many small southern towns under the rule of Reconstruction.

At the turn of the Century, Greenville was primarily known as a sleepy town on the Tar River and home to East Carolina Teacher’s Training College, a small school primarily for young women focusing primarily on instructing new grade school teachers. The name changed to East Carolina Teachers College, and a few years later became East Carolina College, and in 1967, East Carolina University. With a current enrollment of over 27,000 students, East Carolina University is the second largest University in the 16 member University of North Carolina system. The East Carolina School of Medicine, a world-class medical school partnered with Pitt County Memorial Hospital is a center of internationally recognized medical research and consistently wins awards and certificates for its excellent patient care. The East Carolina Heart Center is one of the most advanced treatment centers of heart disease in the world.

Greenville is more than East Carolina University. Greenville North Carolina exploded into prominence in the 1970’s with international manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries locating in and around the city limits. It is a thriving metropolis with over 75,000 citizens and a regional center for manufacturing, transportation, wholesale and retail services, and over 100 restaurants and 200 small businesses and a center for professional services of all types.  Greenville is the largest city in Eastern North Carolina, and it is not served by an interstate highway which gives it a nice local feel.

One of the best things about Greenville is a constant flow of things to do and activities for all ages. There are art museums, several recreational parks, bike trails, a thriving youth sports program (2006 Babe Ruth World Series Champions), a sizeable arts community that sponsors book signings and poetry readings by prominent authors, and several local organizations that have diverse interests such as car shows and Equestrian riding. When you add the East Carolina Pirates baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, and football sports programs into the mix, and combine this with the East Carolina Summer Concert series and the productions at Wright Auditorium on the ECU campus, Greenville is certainly a wonderful place to learn, have fun, and experience everything that Eastern North Carolina has to offer.

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