Ayden, North Carolina

• PCMH Nurses Honored
  

  Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville is home to five nurses who have been named to the list of 2010 Great 100 Nurses.

• Pizza Inn Customer Will Get the Real Taste of Italy
  

  It was no ordinary pizza delivery when local representatives of the Pizza Inn team knocked on the front door of Ayden, North Carolina-resident Krista Keith's home.

• SBI relies on bullet analysis that critics deride as unreliable
  

  Beth Desmond looked through a microscope at two mangled bullets. It was the start of a 2006 murder trial in Pitt County, and prosecutors needed her help to fix a potentially crippling weakness in their case.

• Paying respect
  

  ORMONDSVILLE Nearly 1,000 law enforcement officials saluted Tuesday at the passing of a horse-drawn caisson carrying the remains of their fallen brother, Greene County Deputy Jon Willis.

• Mr. and Mrs. Dale Musselwhite
  

  Gena June and Dale Musselwhite, both of Ayden, were united in marriage on May 8, 2010, at Saint Thomas Preservation Hall in Wilmington.

City Description

Ayden is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,622 at the 2000 census and the 2007 estimated population was 5,005. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area of North Carolina's Inner Banks region. Ayden is located at 35°28′16″N 77°25′15″W / 35.47111°N 77.42083°W / 35.47111; -77.42083 (35.470973, -77.420740). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km²), all of it land. In 1891, William Henry Harris asked the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to build a train depot on a portion of his farm in order to create a village. A 40-acre (160,000 m) parcel of land was divided into residential lots surrounding the depot in "Harristown", with Harris owning every other lot. Within the next several years, lots were sold and homes built. Businesses began to open up to support the new residents, and on February 3, 1891, the town was incorporated as "Ayden." Within a few years, the Carolina Christian College and the Free Will Baptist Seminary were established. By 1919, Ayden had full-time electricity supplied by the Ayden municipal light plant. In 1922, the Mutual Building and Loan Association

City Contained By:

• Pitt County
• North Carolina

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 5.95697265377 km squared

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