Moore's

Moore’s Service Station was listed in the Green Book as “Moore’s—613 Ramsey St.” under “Service Stations” in Fayetteville from 1947-1955.¹

Moore’s Service Station was originally owned by Robert Daniel Moore Jr. It was also known as Moore’s Sinclair Service Station and Robert D. Moore Jr. Filling Station. By the second year the business was listed in the Green Book, however, the filling station had changed hands. The 1948 Fayetteville city directory lists Williams Service Station, owned by Orange and J. Waddell Williams, at 613 Ramsey Street. The business changed hands at least two more times; it was listed as “L&L Service Station” in the 1953 city directory and as “McMillan Service Station” in the 1956 city directory.²

Robert Daniel Moore, Jr. was born in 1913 in Washington, DC. His parents were from North Carolina and moved their family back to their home state by 1920. Moore grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. He earned a teacher degree and began a career in Wilmington as a teacher. He moved to Fayetteville in 1940 and opened Moore’s Service Station the same year. Moore married his wife, Tahita, in 1942; the couple separated in 1947, around the same time that Moore sold the service station.³

Moore’s Service Station is no longer standing.⁴

Essay by Brandie K. Ragghianti, 2022

Notes

1. Victor Green, 1947 Green Book, 64; Green, 1948 Green Book, 62; Green, 1949 Green Book, 56; Green, 1950 Green Book, 62; Green, 1951 Green Book, 53; Green, 1952 Green Book, 53; Green, 1953 Green Book, 53; Green, 1954 Green Book, 53; Green, 1955 Green Book, 53. 
2. Hill’s 1943 Fayetteville City Directory, 341 (alphabetical listing); Hill’s 1946 Fayetteville City Directory, 321, 517, 518 (alphabetical listing), 714 (street listing); Hill’s 1943 Fayetteville City Directory, 341 (alphabetical listing); Hill’s 1951 Fayetteville City Directory, 491 (alphabetical listing); Hill’s 1953 Fayetteville City Directory, 114 (street listing; Hill’s 1956 Fayetteville City Directory, 132 (street listing).
3.  1920 United States Federal Census, Dickinson Street, Ward 1, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, digital image s.v. “Robert D. Moore Jr.,” accessed from www.ancestry.com; 1920 United States Federal Census, Dickinson Street, Ward 1, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, digital image s.v. “Robert D. Moore Jr.,” accessed from www.ancestry.com; 1930 United States Federal Census, Dickinson Street, Ward 1, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, digital image s.v. “Robert D. Moore” accessed from www.ancestry.com; 1940 United States Federal Census, Red Cross Street, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, digital image s.v. “Roalit Moore Jr.” accessed from www.ancestry.com; Robert Daniel Moore Jr., July 13, 1913, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, US World War II Draft Cards, 1940 - 1947, accessed from www.ancestry.com; “Divorces Asked,” The Durham Sun (Durham, NC), February 14, 1956, accessed from www.newspapers.com.