Answer Sheet

First entry above, January 18, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: gerry culler

Hometown rockingham nc

We called it oneway st. It was between Roses dime store and Wood's dime store. I believe it is S Lee St.

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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

I believe the street is Lee Street looking west, the year was 1958

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Name: Jack Cooper

Hometown Rock Hill

Joel, I don't know what the official name of the street was..but everyone I knew back then just called it "one-way" street because you could only drive one directiion..I also use to work at the Rose's 5& 10.

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01-23-10 Answer: The above photograph was taken in the 1950s or early 1960s showing the west side of S. Lee Street between Franklin Street and Washington Street.
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Second entry above, January 23, 2010. Comments are below:
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01-29-10 Answer: The photograph above is that of the Henry Wall Farm, taken sometime during the 1920's near the present day intersection of Ann Street and Foushee Street. The area seen in the photograph is part of Richmond Park today.

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Third entry above, January 29, 2010. Comments are below:
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Harry A West, Jr

Hometown Rockingham NC

That is a photo of the OLD Farmers' Bank Building on West Washington Street (not the later bank bldg. on the corner on the Square). Just out of the picture, to the left of the A-1 Used Car Lot was the LITTLE THEATER. The white car on the front row of the car lot is a 1958 Buick. But the photo was taken in 1963.

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Howard Richardson

It was no West Washington Street the A-1 use car lot was McInnis Ford Dealership. Picture taken around 1962 or 63.

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Sandy Browder

Yep, I see the Cox Army/Navy surplus right across the street from where the downtown BB&T is now.

Our lake house was built with stuff from the urban renewal project that tore down that side of town. Big windows from McInnis garages, etc.

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Name: Chuck Cargill

Hometown Wake Forest, NC

As I remember this part of town very well because my grandfather, C.O. Funderburk, had a Gas-for-Less station at the bottom of the hill, across from Stilwell's Tire store. That is, in fact, Cox's Army-Navy surplus store and to the right was Hough's Hardware store. I also remember going to the Little theatre for Sat. afternoon matinees. Wow, flashback, and I never even used LSD!

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02-03-10 Answer: This is a photograph of the north side of W. Washington Street during the 1950s or early 1960s. The buildings in this picture were demolished as part of the urban renewal project during the 1960's. ...Appreciate all the replies - I believe all of them were correct.jb.

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Fourth entry above, February 3, 2010. Comments are below:
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Sara McDougald

Hometown: Rockingham

That is Homer Benoist at Five Points. Dynamite.

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Howard Richardson

Hometown: Rockingham

Homer Benoist Five Points Gro.
Mid to late 60s

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Joel Shannon Bailey

Hometown: Cary

Is that the little store down by Grandma Baileys house off of Ellerbe rd? Is that Homer?

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Ken Smith

Hometown: Rockingham

I am about to burst to know the answer, and I know all I have to do is go to the link, but I haven't done it because it's been so much fun talking with our old friend about it. Most of them have thought it was Smith Brother's Groceries on Fayetteville road next to were the Tar Heel Motel used to be that Michael Gillis' mother ran, but Bonnie Poplin and I agree that it couldn't be Smith Brothers because Smith Brothers never sold beer and there is a Schlitz sign hanging in the picture, plus Smith Brothers had cigarettes behind the counter, not bread.

Becky McDonal thought it my be Mr. Crenshaw's grocery store in East Rockingham, and I have had other responses such as Reid's Grocery, Capel's Grocery, Williams Grocery, and Munn's Grocery

I didn't go the the store much, but I did go with Mom several times because she knew him, and my thoughts are that it is Five Point's Groceries, and I'm pretty sure that that is Homer Benoist (I think maybe he was Kay Benoist's Dad) in the picture. I think Kay graduated in 1962 or 1963. I know she was in David and Betsy Hunneycutt's class. I'm having a problem remembering, but I'm pretty sure Mr. Benoist had a nickname ("Dynamite") if I remember correctly. And I know this is goanna sound stupid if it's wrong, but didn't he have a live talking bird in there at one time (if that's not true, just chalk it up to old age and loss of memory)? I originally thought the picture could have been taken around my graduating year (1964), but it was probably a little later than that maybe even early '70's.

I do know one. the questions have sure brought up a lot of good old memories and sparked a lot of conversation with those I have shared it with.

Keep up the good work and the TRIVIA. Becky McDonald Brewer, Bonnie Poplin, Gainey, Nancy Stanley Harris, and I (for sure) love it.

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02-05-10 Answer: This photo above is a 1973 photo of Homer Benoist in his Five Point Grocery in Rockingham. His nickname was "Dynamite." Homer used to have a minor bird in his store that would talk. -thanks for all the responses.

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Fifth entry above, February 5, 2010. Comments are below:
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Sandy Browder

"S Hancock Street, between old Belks ( obviously ) and Graham Inman's drug store. Had to be early/mid 50's. Across from old PO."

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La Wanda Goodwin

Hometown Rockingham

The photo was taken cross from the old Post Office uptown; think the street name is Hancock Street. The store with awning to the left is a craft shop now, and I remember riding in Belk's public elevator! Don't know the year of the car; assume that might date the photo.

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James Newsom

Hometown Rockingham

The street is Hancock. You have Belk's and then the gas station, the next store is W&H Clothing beside W&H which you cannot see was Federal Pharmacy. It was operated by Graham Inman and Mr Honeycutt(Bill Honeycutt's daddy). The date is probably early to mid 50's.

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02-07-10 Answer: 1946 - The above photo is of the west side of South Hancock Street showing W&H Clothing Company, DIXIE AUTO ESSO STATION, and the west entrance to Belk's Department Store. Harry West's dad managed the Dixie Auto in the early 1940's. -thanks for all the responses.

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Sixth entry above, February 7, 2010. Comments are below:
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I think maybe the above photo was just a little too old to get any replies.
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02-09-10 Answer: The photo above is Whites Barber Shop in Rockingham, sometime before 1920 but the location is unknown.That is John Sandy Covington on the left and Walter E McNair on the right. Person in the middle is unknown, and, likewise, the person setting in the barber chair waiting for his haircut.
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Seventh entry above, February 9, 2010. Comments are below:
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Sandy Browder

Another good one, and I have absolutely no clue. Looks like a bakery of some sort.

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Donna Tuthill Cochran

there was a bakery in Rockingham across from the side door of woods dime store ( forget the name of the street ).

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02-11-10 Answer: The photo above is the interior view photographed in 1932 of the EB Liles Store, once located on the Square in Rockingham. Store personnel pictured are, from left - Wat Meacham, Homer D. Benoist, E. B. Liles, W. J. Boyd and Charles Talley.
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Eighth entry above, February 11, 2010. Comments are below:
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Sandy Browder

"Hard to see any detail, but it looks like the old square downtown."

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Name: Ken Smith

Hometown Williamston, SC

I really not sure, but it almost looks like the tree on the square where the police station used to be.

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Anne Hiott McLaurin

"Joel, are these the two trees that used to be on the square in Rockingham?"
"One has been cut down but I think La Wanda Goodwin saved the other by writing letters to the editor. Correct me if I'm wrong La Wanda. I was so proud of her for saving the tree."

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Sara McDougald Poston

"Isn't that the 2 trees like Anne McLaurin said that were downtown where the police station used to be?"

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Donna Tuthill Cochran

"I think yall are right.. The police station was on the Island !!!! My how things have changed !!"

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Lynda Mitchell Davenport

"I remember the police station on the square so well. I use to walk there with a friend who's dad was a policeman. Tiny little police station!"

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Cathy Wilson

"Those are the trees that surrounded the later built Police Dept. I remember going there many times when my Daddy was a Policeman. There was pot belly stove in there. My have times have changed. "

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Sandy Browder

"Actually that was a fairly easy one, I still think about what was there when I circle the "new" square. Didn't know the story about saving the tree though. "

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02-13-10 Answer: The photo above was taken in 1936 - The Square in downtown Rockingham. The vehicles parked around the square are all either taxicabs or physicians' cars. At opposite ends of the square were two areas reserved for taxis, and all of the front and back sections were reserved for doctors. - The most responses so far was on this photo and I believe most of them were correct----thanks for the input.
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Ninth entry above, February 13, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Harry West

Hometown Sarasota FL

This is the original RICHMOND ACADEMY, which preceded the ROCKINGHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL, located on the south side of E. Washington Street on the corner of Lawrence Street. The water tower on the corner of Franklin & Lawrence was in the back lot of the old school ground, and it remains there today.

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02-15-10 Answer: Both these photographs show the Rockingham Graded School (according to the notation on each photo) which was located on the corners of E. Washington Street, S. Lawrence Street and E. Franklin Street. The building contained all school grades.

The photo on top shows the original building constructed circa 1895.
The photo on bottom shows an addition that was added circa 1906.
The building was abandoned and demolished circa 1952. - Not sure if the Richmond Academy was the first name given or if it was later changed to the Rockingham Graded School. Maybe Harry can enlighten us on this.
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Tenth entry above, February 15, 2010. Comments are below:
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La Wanda Goodwin

"For some reason, the back wall reminds me of the old Bristow Drug when I was little, but I really don't know."

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Anne Hiott McLaurin

Joel Is it the old Tanner's Grocery Store in downtown. Denny seems to think it is.

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Jesse Wilcox

I would go with grocery store but the name of it????

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Sara McDougald Poston

"Could it possibly be the City Market that was owned and operated by the Williams family"

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Charlie Yow

"I think it is Gibbs Grocery , on the square downtown"
"it was beside the old Strand Theatre,, they delivered groceres to your home. never went inside though,, looks like Mrs. Gibbs.. she was my neighbor"

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Name: Ken Smith

Hometown Williamston, SC

I think this is City Market downtown that the Williams owned.

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Name: Vickey Pryce leviner

Hometown Greer SC

here I think it is the Williams Market

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Name: Rocket

Hometown Rockingham

Liles Grocery

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02-19-10 Answer:The above photo was Swinks Grocery, located "on the Square," as it appeared between 1921 and 1923. Pictured with some of the stock of groceries are the proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swink. - Many responses on this one but all were wrong - except for one - Anne Hiott McLaurin caught me on FB chatroom and continued to guess until she came up with the correct answer above. Thanks to all for participating.
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Eleventh entry above, February 19, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

This building was located on N/W croner of the square in Rockingham, and was a cotton brokerage company. They brought and sold cotton to the mills around Rockingham, NC. The O Brown Smith family owned the bussness

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Ann Rohleder Stephens

"The building was demolished in 1968 and, I think, located near or on the square. It housed a cotton company. My grandfather, A. H. Rohleder, worked there from 1934 until 1957. Cotton from all over would come in and be weighed, then shipped out to manufacturers. There's a story about it in the August 2, 1968 issue of the Richmond County Daily Journal. "

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Harry West

"Figger'd Ann would ID that one. In addition, I BELIEVE that the "O. Brown Smith" painted atop the building was Olen B. Smith, Sr. Olen, Jr. graduated RHS in 1958. It was on the corner of the Square and North Lee Street. That is the printing plant of the Richmond County Journal down the hill on the right."

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Ken Smith

This current picture on Rockingham Memories has really intrigued me. I am convinced that that building to the right and down stairs is where the Journal was printed. I remember this because one of the many jobs I had in high school was here and in the back of this building. I melted down pig iron and made bars out of them to be used later when they set up the printing process for the newspaper. This was back when Bo Dorsett was an employee there. That being said, I think I remember a building being beside it that was a cotton brokerage (? - don't know if this is the right word or not) or place where cotton was brought to by framers and weighed in and sold. I do believe it's on the square and I think it was torn down in the late '60's or early '70's. I don't know if this is right or not, but wasn't there a RHS graduate (maybe in the '50's) named Olin Smith?

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02-21-10 Answer: The photograph above is the Cotton Exchange Building, which was located beside the building currently used by RBC Centura on the northwest corner of Lee Street and Washington Street in the early 1960s. The Richmond County Daily Journal building is visible on the
right. - Of course, the answer I have does not compare with the info shared above by Harry West, Anne Rohleder, Howard Richardson and Ken Smith. Seems like everyone knew this building. Great to get so much information about some of Rockingham's history.
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Twelfth entry above, February 21, 2010. Comments are below:
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Harry West

Hometown Rockingham/Sarasota FL

That's a great shot of the PEE DEE BANK located on the NE corner of E Washington & N Hancock Streets. A lot of us remember that building as the Rockingham Cafe, and - later - the Western Auto Store.

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Name: Ken Smith

Hometown Williamston, SC

I think the name of the bank was Pee Dee Bank where the Western Auto store used to be.

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02-23-10 Answer: This photograph above shows the Bank of Pee Dee building built in 1906 on the northeast corner of N. Hancock Street and E. Washington Street.
The bank closed during the Great Depression. Economy Auto Supply had occupied the building since the 1950's. Plus at one time I believe The Western Auto Store was located there. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Thirteenth entry above, February 23, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

I believe the building is the Rockingham Hotel that was on the corner of Washinghton Street and South Hancock Street. There is a bank on the corner now.

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Cooper Meacham McLaurin

"The picture is of the old Rockingham Hotel on Hancock St and E. Washington."

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La Wanda Goodwin

" I don't remember the building, but I know from family that my Dad, Lacy Gibbs Goodwin, had a barbershop in there!"

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02-25-10 Answer: The above photo is the Rockingham Hotel, at the southeastern corner of Washington and Hancock Streets, that was sold for dismantling in 1974.
Top photo - the hotel in October 1974, before the
dismantling began. Middle photo - the hotel being torn
down in November 1974. Correct!
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Fourteenth entry above, February 25, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

This is the Old Great Falls Mill, that was located on what is now U.S Highway 74, coming into Rockingham from the west.

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Sara McDougald Poston

Great Falls Mill.
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Sandy Browder

"Now this is a good one, obviously a mill.....but which one....used to be lots around R'ham. Could it be the one that was on the little Roberdale lake that burned down?"

"Whoa, that is an old picture then!"

"All that I ever remember seeing was a shell of a building, as stated, covered by kudzu..."
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John Hartgrove

"Yeah before it was consumed by Kudzu."
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Name: Bill Dennis

Hometown Hamlet

Great Falls Mill
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Name: Ken Smith

Hometown Williamston, SC

Great Falls Mill
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02-27-10 Answer: The above photo is the former Great Falls Mill in Rockingham. After the original 1837 mill was burned during the Civil War, it was soon rebuilt as the Great Falls Mill and was back in production by 1870. The mill pictured here was destroyed by fire in the mid 1970's. Most everyone got this one.
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Fifthteenth entry above, February 27, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

Washington Street about 1969 or 1970
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Anne Hiott McLaurin

"Downtown Rockingham, East Washington Street"
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John Hartgrove

"This was taken across from Mr. Coleman's gas station...in front of Kay's Dress Shop.
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Sara McDougald Poston

"East Washington St. apparently made some where close to the Manufacturer's Building in the early 60's due to the Falcons parked on the street. Acroos the street is Hallum's which later became McKenzie Furniture and looking up the street is the A & P managed by Mr. Infinger; Bristow Drug is also in the pic"
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Name: Harry A West, Jr

Hometown Rockingham/Sarasota FL

What a great shot of E. Washington Street, looking east from in front of the MERCHANTS BUILDING (or was it the MANUFACTURE'S BUILDING?). It's nice to see how active "Main Street" once was. On the left you can see the end of HALLUM FURNITURE (later McKENZIE FURNITURE) and the A&P, which I believe was the FIRST supermarket to be built in Rockingham.
As evidenced by the autos, this photo was taken in the 60's. The old Grammar School that was across from the A&P is long gone, and GOODYEAR & BRISTOW DRUGS have replaced it.
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Sandy Browder

"Everyone nailed that one pretty quickly......"
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Name: Ken Smith

Hometown Williamston, SC

This is East Washington Street, Rockingham, NC in the '60's. This picture looks like it was taken across the street from where Mr. Dewey Coleman's gas station and the old Employment Security Commission builidings were located. The building on the left with the arch is the old Hallum's Furniture building, if I remember correctly. It looks like it was taken around 1968, 1969, or 1970. It was also probably taken on a Saturday based on the number of cars and people downtown. Thanks again, Joel! This is just plain GOOD OLD FASHIONED MEMORIES!
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Harry West

"Interesting to note the TREES behind the A&P sign. I believe that there were two very old & large houses located there. One belonged to the long time Principal of the Grammar School just across the street - Miss Bessie Terry."
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Anne Hiott McLaurin

"One was a daycare...I remember earning a girl scout badge by reading to the children there."
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Cooper Meacham McLaurin

"Hey Harry, I believe there were 3 homes beside the A&P. !st one was the Blacker house, the middle one was Fannie Mae Longs, the corner one was the Bessie Coley house.
Miss Bessie Terry lived on Caroline St. below the old bus station that was on E. Washington St. The homes beside the A&P had a
beautiful black iron fence along the sidewalk. I love this old stuff."
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Harry West

"Hi, Cooper!! Did I get the wrong "Bessie's" house?!?!? I DO remember the black wrought iron fence. Usta run my hand along it walking home from the Saturday matinees at the Richmond Theater. They tore it all down and built a parking lot!!"
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03-01-10 Answer: The above photo is Washington Street East, looking Eastward from Harrington Square. It was taken in 1968. A good many responses on this one and I believe all were correct...plus some more info on what was around this street at that time.
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Sixteenth entry above, March 1, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Sara McDougald Poston

Hometown Rockingham

US #1 coming up from south of Rockingham towards Cheraw
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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

This is U.S.# 1 going South to North Just before the bridge over the railroad. Just passed where Mill Road comes into U.S.#1
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Ken Smith

This new picture seems to be a shot of US 1 coming from Cheraw into Rockingham, a little ways past where the Village Motel was.
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03-03-10 Answer: The above photo is a postcard from the 1920s showing the view coming in from Cheraw on US No 1 to Rockingham. (sorry but for some reason, this photo did not show up on the main page after the first day. Am not sure what happened.)
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Seventeenth entry above, March 3, 2010. Comments are below:
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Name: Sara McDougald Poston

Hometown Rockingham, NC

Klopman Mills, Cordova.
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Name: Harry West

Hometown Sarasota FL/Rockingham

This latest post card appears to be the HANNAH PICKET mill viewed from about where LONG DR now intersects with MILL RD.
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Jerry Turner

Hometown Rockingham

The old Steele Mill at Cordova.
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Name: Howard Richardson

Hometown Rockingham NC

This Picture is of The Ledbetter Mfg. Co. Mill. Located on Ledbetter Lake North and West of Rockingham, NC
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Name: Floyd (Butch) Spencer)

Hometown Rockingham/Cordova

That would be Burlington, later Klopman, mill at Cordova
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Name: Lucy

Hometown Rockingham

Ledbetter Mill
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Name: Mike Coble

Hometown Maxton, NC

Joel, I believethe mill in the post card is the one that was just below where the dam busted. I don't recall the number but as a boy my father earned some extra money by cleaning this mill. The whole family pitched in and helped.
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03-05-10 Answer: The above photo is a postcard from the 1920s showing Steeles Mills in Cordova. (some had it correct, some did not. Appreciate the responses.)
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