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Pee Dee, the East Carolina University mascot since 1983, is depicted in a 13-foot-tall, three-ton cast-bronze statue on a concrete base at the corner of Founders Drive and Faculty Way on ECU's campus mall in Greenville, North Carolina. The swashbuckling pirate figure wears a tricorn hat and tall cuffed boots, stands with one foot on a mound of cannonballs, and brandishes a sword beside a small cannon. Installed on the mall in 2008, the statue has twice needed repair and restoration after being stolen in 2014 and vandalized in 2021.
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Pee Dee the Pirate
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Site-level location · 35.6068° N, 77.3654° W
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ECU campus mall, corner of Founders Drive and Faculty Way, Greenville, North Carolina.
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