PITT COUNTY
Updated 12/31/99
The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office statewide inventory contains information on over 500 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Pitt County. The staff did mapping and photo recording of Blue Banks Civil War Earthworks and has made six archaeological inspections.
The Historic Preservation Office has provided funding and supervisory assistance to survey projects in the county, including surveys of Farmville (1978), rural Pitt County (1986-87), and Pitt County municipalities (1988-89). Surveys are cooperative local-state projects accomplished with grants and staff assistance from the Historic Preservation Office. In 1992, Historic Preservation Office staff recorded the Grimesland Slave Houses.
Federal grants of $40,470 from 1978 to 1993 included assistance for architectural surveys throughout the county, an archaeological study in Greenville, and National Register nominations in Greenville, Farmville and Ayden. State grants of $115,000 awarded between 1983 and 1995 included assistance to the Robson House, Fleming House, the Grifton Depot, the A.W. Ange House, the Pitt County survey, and the Winterville Downtown Revitalization project.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Thirteen individual National Register properties and four districts include the College View Historic District in Greenville, the Farmville Historic District, and the Ayden Historic District. The Blue Banks Civil War Earthworks were placed on the state's National Register Study List in 1997.
LOCAL PRESERVATION COMMISSIONS
Greenville is a Certified Local Government. The Greenville Historic Preservation Commission has submitted local designation reports for one district and twenty-one individual landmarks to the Historic Preservation Office for review and comment. In 1992, the Historic Preservation Office, City of Greenville, and Preservation North Carolina sponsored a workshop in Greenville for local preservation commission members from across the state.
Four income-producing tax credit projects have been completed in Pitt County at a total construction investment of $590,000, including the old P.H. Rose Department Store and the Farmville Furniture Store, both in Farmville, and the Judge Fordyce Cunningham Harding House and the J. R. Moye House in Greenville. One residential renovation has been completed to utilize the new state tax credit for non-income-producing historic structures, and four residences are currently being rehabilitated under the program. The Historic Preservation Office reviews and provides restoration technical services for all preservation tax credit projects.
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND PUBLICATIONS
The Historic Preservation Office assisted the Greenville Area Preservation Association in publishing the results of the architectural survey in The Architectural Heritage of Greenville, North Carolina in 1989. In 1991 the Historic Preservation Office assisted the Pitt County Historical Society, Inc. in publishing The Historic Architecture of Pitt County, North Carolina, which was awarded the Society of Architectural Historians' Antoinette Forrester Downing Award for outstanding survey publications. The Historic Preservation Office conducted a workshop in Farmville during 1994 on the rehabilitation tax credits.
The Historic Preservation Office has provided technical services for numerous projects including Green Wreath Plantation, Joel Patrick House, Thomas Sheppard House, College View Historic District, Robert Lee Humber House, the Village of Yesteryear, the Flemming House, Farmville Furniture Company, the Moye House, and the A. W. Ange House.