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To contact East Carolina Village of Yesteryear: E-mail the President Joanne Honeycutt E-mail the Secretary Rosemary Toumey E-mail regarding web site Karen Nethercutt The postal mailing address: East Carolina Village of Yesteryear Post Office Box 2740 Greenville, NC 27836-0740 |
Connor Eagles, co-founder, is dipping from a wooden well made from a tree trunk. |
The East Carolina Village of Yesteryear opened at the Pitt County
American Legion fairground in 1979. It was a large collection of farm
artifacts, some original buildings, and some newly built museum structures
for housing the collections. Connor Eagles and Les Turnage created the
Village by convincing farmers to donate their vintage artifacts and old farm
structures and by securing money to move and place them. Both were
active in the American Legion, each having been commander of the local
post, and believed that the citizens of Pitt County would enjoy and
appreciate having these reminders of their agricultural past on display.
The American Legion decided to use the Village site for another project.
In the summer of 2007, the Village Board actively began a campaign to
find a new home for the Village and to let people in the County know of its
precarious future.
The Pitt County Commissioners saw potential in the Village. On October
20, 2008, it gave the Board a deed for 5.6 acres on County Home Road
between the Farmers Market and Wintergreen School to place the
buildings and artifacts. The Board recently placed all buildings and
artifacts on the new property.
The reorganized Board plans for the new Village to function not only as a
museum but as a community venue. It also sees the Village as a viable
business, although it will need to supplement its income with grant money
and donations.
Harvey Case and Paul Nethercutt were carpenters in the late 70's and 80's on the village projects. Here they are repairing the Sattherthwaite Store. Les Turnage, co-founder, playing checkers in Satterthwaite Store with grandson Collier Finch. |
HISTORY
| Milk House This milk house, from the early 1900's, sat under a shade tree. Both trees and sawdust insulation kept the milk cool. After the cream rose to the top, a family member skimmed it off and churned it into butter. The Village will recognize preservation sponsors with appropriate, permanent, exterior signage. |