Short History of Bethel Bethel was settled on the site of a small Indian Village. There were no towns in Pitt County before the American Revolutionary War. In 1774, a crossroad of the Tarboro-Williamston Road and the Halifax Road to Greenville was established in the Bethel area near the Medley Chapel Methodist Church. The crossroads were the beginning of Bethel. In 1840, the U.S. Postal...