June 15,1930: Shell Station Opens on Burke Street
Readers of the Winston-Salem Journal on this day in 1930 were treated to a photo of the first “Shell” service station in Winston-Salem. In fact, it was the first “Shell” station that Quality...
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January 12: Happy Birthday! Martin Monroe Mackie
Martin Monroe Mackie was born in Yadkin County in 1899. His parents were John Henry and Nancy Mackie, and he was next to the youngest child in a family of 10 children. Although...
January 5: Happy Birthday! Gowan Hughes (Nutt) Caldwell
Gowan Hughes “Nutt” Caldwell was born in Durham in 1902. He moved to Winston-Salem as a child and graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School. He served in World War I, dropping out of...