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  1. "Big Mike" and Eldridge Easter circa 1955 - "Big Mike" Easter (L) Eldridge Easter (R)

    "Big Mike" Easter Eldridge Easter

    Record Type: Photo

    "Big Mike" (L) and Eldridge Easter (R) circa 1955
  2. "Elkin's Lineup" - Elkin. Elkin baseball team, 1913 season. Left to right, standing: Dr. E. G. Click, Ernest Nichols, Jim Greenwood, Ab Bivins, Rom Llewellyn, Grover Graham. Sitting: Dr. L. C. Couch, Hal Bell, George Royall, Walter Cherry. Chatham Manufacturing Company "Old Mill" is in the background. W. W. Whitaker Collection.

    Recreation Baseball Men

    Record Type: Photo

    Elkin 1913 Baseball Team
  3. "Gee" Wallace House - "Gee" Wallace House. Also known as Jonathan Jehue 'Gee" Wallace House. Little Richmond Community. See also SIMPLE TREASURES page 119 and State Record 554.

    Houses

    Record Type: Photo

    Gee Wallace House
  4. "Good Roads" - Good Road to Winston-Salem. Note unpaved road - vehicle, probably a T-Model Ford with passengers in the back seat in Forsyth County.

    Automobiles Transportation Roads.

    Record Type: Photo

    Road to Winston-Salem
  5. "Homecoming" - Homecoming for Surry County's soldiers and sailors, June 1919, sponsored by Surry County Red Cross.

    Men Military parades & ceremonies Military personnel Homecomings

    Record Type: Photo

    Homecoming Parade
  6. "Old Hollow" Stewart's Creek Baptist Church - Sign identifying Old Hollow "Stewarts Creek" Primitive Baptist Church, established 1794.

    Churches Baptist churches Signs (Notices)

    Record Type: Photo

    Old Hollow
  7. "Old Hollow" Stewart's Creek Primitive Baptist Church - Shutter on "Old Hollow" Stewart's Creek Primitive Baptist Church, located west of Mount Airy off Hwy. 89 to south in the vicinity of Toast. The deed is said to have been made in 1794, and the present building was erected around 1889. This picture was made for the Bicentennial in 1976. State Record 1389.

    Churches Baptist Churches Shutters Architectural decorations & ornaments African-American Negro

    Record Type: Photo

    Old Hollow
  8. "Old Hollow" Stuart's Creek Baptist - "Old Hollow" Stuart's Creek Baptist Church. Other information shows the spelling to be "Stewarts Creek" and the date established 1794.

    Churches Baptist churches Architectural photographs

    Record Type: Photo

    Old Hollow
  9. "Old Hollow" Stuarts Creek Church - "Old Hollow" Stuarts Creek Church, 1978. White frame church with small graveyard in the foreground. Note identifies it as the white church.

    Churches Cemeteries

    Record Type: Photo

    "Old Hollow" Stuarts Creek Church
  10. "Old Methodist" - "Old Methodist" Church and cemetery, before 1894. Also known as South Main Methodist, Mount Airy.

    Cemeteries Methodist churches

    Record Type: Photo

    "Old Methodist"
  11. "Ole Reuben" - Mount Airy's first fire horse, "Ole Reuben" - early 1920s.

    Fire fighting Horses Men Wagons

    Record Type: Photo

    Fire Fighters
  12. "Protracted Meetings" - Inside of an old church. According to notes on back of photo, it is an illustration of "Protracted Meetings," an article by Ruth Minick on page 64 of THE SURRY COUNTY BOOK. Note old wooden bench at back of room.

    Benches Churches

    Record Type: Photo

    Inside an old church
  13. "The Hollow" - "The Hollow" from I-77.

    Landscape photographs Rural areas

    Record Type: Photo

    The Hollow
  14. "Triangle" - Mount Airy "Triangle" - corner Taylor and Oxford . North Main School is in the background, large canon in the foreground.

    Educational facilities Cannons

    Record Type: Photo

    Triangle
  15. "Uncle Buck" Moore House - Matthew D. "Uncle Buck" Moore House, West Pine Street, Mount Airy. Note on back of picture says, "b. 1893.'

    Houses

    Record Type: Photo

    Matthew D. "Uncle Buck" Moore
  16. (Former) Brown School - (Former) Brown School, SR 2064, Shoals Township, built ca. 1905, used during the early 20th century, now deteriorated.

    Educational facilities Schools Abandoned buildings

    Record Type: Photo

    (Former) Brown School
  17. (Former) D & W Shirt Factory - (Former) D & W Shirt Factory, Low Gap, built 1925-1935. In 1942 it became W. M. Woodruff's Son & Co., a major supplier of evergreen products for the florist trade. SR 262, SEE also Simple Treasures page 108

    Factories

    Record Type: Photo

    (Former) D. & W. Shirt Factory
  18. (Former) Pisgah School - (Former) Pisgah School, SR 1338, Cross Roads vicinity, Dobson Township, an early 20th century Black school. Later converted to a store. For more information, see SIMPLE TREASURES page 69 and State Record 516.

    Educational facilities Schools Stores & shops Blacks Black schools African-American

    Record Type: Photo

    Pisgah School
  19. (Former) Truelove Store - (Former) Truelove Store, SR 2069, Shoals vicinity, built early 20th century, now deteriorated. For more information, see SIMPLE TREASURES page 229 and State Record 122.

    Abandoned buildings Stores & shops

    Record Type: Photo

    Trulove Store, Shoals
  20. 1911 E & A Celebration - Elkin. July 4, 1911 celebration of the arrival of the first train on the Elkin and Alleghany Railroad. A number of people are sitting and standing on the outside of the locomotive, and many others are watching on the sidelines. Depot Alley was named for the railroad.

    Transportation Trains People Celebrations

    Record Type: Photo

    1911 E&A Railroad Celebration

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