Main Street #3

Main Street Looking North, Salisbury N.C. 

This image was taken in the early 1900s, prior to the streetcars.  This area near the courthouse had a shoe store, grocer, hardware, clothing, drug store, barber shop, cotton broker, and a machinery company among other businesses. The building with the flags is the V. Wallace Company, a wholesale dry goods firm.  Up the street in the middle of the square is the fountain, which was eventually moved to accommodate streetcar tracks.

51585 – Buerbaum’s Bookstore, Salisbury, NC (Germany)

Source:

Sides, Susan Salisbury and Rowan County Charleston, SC: Arcadia, c1999

Salisbury City Directories various years

Theo Buerbaum

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