Mount Olive, NC Home for Rent

Pickles define the life and culture of Mount Olive, a small town in rural eastern North Carolina. The community is home to the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, the largest independent pickle producer in the United States. The company has operated here since 1926, and Mount Olive relishes its identity as Pickletown. A pickle-jar mural decorates a building in the community’s downtown, and popular events like the North Carolina Pickle Festival and the New Year’s Eve Pickle Drop attract visitors from across the state. The town is also home to the University of Mount Olive and is a 14-mile drive from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Mount Olive’s grid of streets spreads out from the train track that passes through the town’s center. Most homes in the community are ranch-style and manufactured houses, and there are also early 1900s Italianate, Craftsman and Greek Revival homes that sit along downtown’s sidewalk-lined streets. The rural areas surrounding the town feature ranch-style, Cape Cod and custom homes that are far from neighbors. The land here is primarily used for farming, and many of the homes have views of the flat fields filled with corn and soybeans. Most homes range from $110,000