Gas Station

Originally likely a Grange Hall, the Parrish Store stood at the intersection of Cornwallis and Erwin Roads until ~1970, when Cornwallis was re-aligned and the store demolished.

402 East Main Street, ~1939. (Library of Congress)

201 Pine Street - late 1940s. The Ray S. Coley service station was built in 1936-37 on a small chunk of land adjacent to the Venable Tobacco Company warehouse, created by the realignment of Pine Street in the 1920s to meet S. Roxboro (north of the tracks,) rather than meet East Pettigrew at a perpendicular. (The Venable Warehouse follows the...

09.20.60 (Herald-Sun) This 1950s era Amoco station received a ~1970s treatment of brick veneer and a shingled projecting roof; it was a pretty junky convenience store / Pure Oil gas station from the time I moved nearby in 1997 until 2012. (Although the practice of the winos imbibing beer in the parking area on the side of the building abated after...

02.11.12

1952 (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) Children in front of the Fuller School (Cleveland Street) ~1900. 413 Cleveland is in the background. The house was demolished sometime between 1938 and 1950. Given the style of the service station, likely closer to 1950. ~1960 (Courtesy Ralph Rogers) Demolished in 1961 for the third-time's-the-charm Fire Station #1.

1988 SHPO proof sheet photo - negative DH2478 if someone wants to pay for a better copy from the negative and send it to me. AP wire story picked up from the Herald, March 26, 2000 Bobby Copeland remembers clutching his grandaddy's hand in the corner gas station. He'd eyeball the candy rack while a group of local men would gather to chat about...

1966

Ella Chisenhall began a family enterprise in 1935 when she built this frame, gable-roofed, box and canopy store with money inherited from her parents. When the structure was completed, her husband, Herbert, gave her one-half acre of land surrounding it. The couple’s oldest son, Clarence, ran the store for a number of years, selling groceries and...