Jo - Indians were all over the Pitt County area before European settlers drove them out, but the area Calvin is referring to appears to be on the NE side of Greenville near Hwy 264, the 4-lane road which "straightened out" the somewhat crooked route of the (very) Old Pactolus Road. It is likely Grindle Creek that Calvin is referring to rather than Tranters Creek, for Grindle Creek originates in the large upland swamp known as Grindle Pocosin, which stretches from just north fo Greenville to Bethel, from Hwy 11 west to about the Edegecombe County line. I know, "upland swamp" sounds like an oxymoron but that's what a pocosin is, and as you know, 'upland' means only a few feet in eastern NC! Pocosins are poorly drained lands that won't perk and won't grow crops without lots of drainage ditches. They are mostly good just for growing pines and hunting deer. Anyway, Grindle Creek flows on down toward Pactolus emptying out to the Tar River not far from old "Yankee Hall." Not too far up the river from there is one of the oldest (if not THE oldest) archaeological Indian sites in the eastern US, believe it or not. ECU anthropology profs and grad students have documented lots of info on it, which I'm sure you can find by using the right keywords in a Google search whenever you're so inclined. I also have a good number of Indian artifacts, including a bunch of arrowheads and a tomahawk head, that I collected on our farm NW of Greenville near the Tar River when I was a boy. All of Pitt County is rich in Native American history that we know very little about! Bob Forbes Original Message: ----------------- From: Jo Prytherch [email protected] Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:53:06 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NC-PCFR] Indian Heritage Was this in the Tranter's Creek area where Pitt, Beaufort and Martin Counties meet? Jo Prytherch ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [NC-PCFR] Indian Heritage > Dear People > I know that the old LAngley Farm was a Indan Buraile Ground and my > Grandfather use tp tell me that the Indains use to live on the farm befor > they were to have been ran off and that their was a burial ground that > Procter & Gamble tore up with bulldozer,s and made the earth flat and they > never ask about the Tribes of Indan that were down in the Tar River and > they liver on the land around a section between Washington and Greenville > N.C. also they would go to a swamp that was up the river and hunt it was > told to me .if you get a oln map out you will see a swamp and the Tar > River go to my grandfather,s back door ,about twomiles down the old > Packtoulis road you will find a small creek . > > > ==== NC-PCFR Mailing List ==== > Post to this mail list at: [email protected] > Visit the PCFR website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr > Browse our rich collection of old family photographs, private documents, > and public records. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > ==== NC-PCFR Mailing List ==== Post to this mail list at: [email protected] Visit the PCFR website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr Browse our rich collection of old family photographs, private documents, and public records. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .