Eagle Service Station

Eagle Service Station was listed in the Green Book as “Eagle’s” under “Service Station” in Greenville in 1947. No address was given for the business.¹ 

Eagle Service Station was a business located in “The Block,” an African American business district in what is now Uptown Greenville, from the mid-to-late 1940s. The business opened between 1945 and 1946 and was closed by 1950.²

Eagle Service Station and Eagle Taxi were owned by Alfred Williams (born in 1913) and were both located at 313 Albemarle Avenue; the address changed to 600 Albemarle Avenue in 1949.  The service station sold Shell products and offered general auto repairing. Williams later worked as a driver for City Cab, also located in “The Block.”³

Essay by Brandie K. Ragghianti, 2022

Notes

1. Victor Green, 1947 Green Book, 64. 
2. “Eagle Taxi” (two separate ads on same page), The Carolinian, September 7, 1946, 7 (digital image 15), accessed from https://newspapers.digitalnc.org; Miller’s 1944-1945 Greenville City Directory; Miller’s 1947-1948 Greenville City Directory, 150 (alphabetical listing); Miller’s 1949-1950 Greenville City Directory, 361 (street listing); Miller’s 1951-1952 Greenville City Directory, 139 (alphabetical listing).
3. Note: name sometimes given as “Albert” in records. Alfred Williams, January 6, 1913, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, US World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, accessed from www.ancestry.com; “Eagle Taxi” (two separate ads on same page), The Carolinian, September 7, 1946, 7 (digital image 15), accessed from https://newspapers.digitalnc.org; Miller’s 1954-1955 Greenville City Directory, 322 (alphabetical listing).