West Fourth Street at Trade Street: Then & Now
This 1911 view of West Fourth Street was taken just to the west of the disjointed North Trade Street intersection. The tall stone building at the left is the Masonic Temple. The other section...
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March 14, 1928: Gilmer’s New Building Venture
The announcement in the Winston-Salem Journal on this date in 1928 proclaimed plans for a new six-story building for Gilmers, Inc., to be built on the corner of West Fourth and Liberty Streets. The...
January 9: Happy Birthday! Georgia Liipfert Pepper
Georgia Liipfert Pepper was born in 1864 in Clarksville, Virginia. She was educated at Sunnyside College in Buffalo Springs, Virginia. She married Thomas R. Pepper in 1890 and moved to Winston-Salem. Thomas R. Pepper...