Fraternal Organization

1913 Map showing the Company Store (next to the reservoir and denoted by the "S") with the small post office located to the north of the building. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The Erwin Mills Company Store was constructed contemporaneously with the mill in 1892. As the name implies, the store provided a place where employees could purchase...

522 East Pettigrew was originally the site of the Rex Theater, built in the late 1910s; 524 East Pettigrew appears to have been added a few years later (early-to-mid 1920s) as Albert Rosenberg's grocery, on the southwest corner of Henry Alley and East Pettigrew St. At the same time, 522 East Pettigrew became the Scarborough and Hargett funeral home...

Thanks to Steve Rankin for most of today's information about the original Lakewood Methodist Church/later Masonic Hall The ‘Lakewood Park Methodist Church’ officially opened April 6, 1913, with Bishop John C. Kilgo (previous president of Trinity College) preaching the first service.

Today, the west side of the opened-in-1910s-closed-in-1970s 200 block of North Queen St., which included the American Legion post on the northwest corner of Liberty and N. Queen. Said outpost at 207 N. Queen, 1963, looking southwest. This whole block was torn down by urban renewal and converted to parking lot space for the library. I wrote...

In 1924, the site at the corner of Main and Roxboro Streets was selected by the Masons for their lodge; funds were raised and the three-story building built. In 1938, the building was lost/forfeited by the Masons to the mortgage holder (an insurance company); the property was then purchased by the county for use as its health department. In 1992, the Health Dept. moved down the block, leaving the building vacant.