Shaw's Service Station

Shaw’s Service Station was listed in the Green Book as “Shaws—440 Raleigh Rd” under “Service Stations” in Rocky Mount from 1953-1955.¹

A.H. Bryant (co-owner of Green Book business Wright’s Chick-Shack Motel) erected a service station and pool room at 440 Raleigh Road in Rocky Mount in 1950. Although the service station was listed as “Shaws” in the Green Book, that name has not yet been located in other historical records. The business was advertised as Summers Amoco Station in 1950; as James H. Sumner Service Station in 1952; and as Daughtridge Amoco Station (owned by Eddie H. Daughtridge) in 1955. The business continued as a service station long after the Green Book era.²

Essay by Brandie K. Ragghianti, 2022

Notes

1. Victor Green, 1953 Green Book, 54; Green, 1954 Green Book, 54; Green, 1955 Green Book, 54. 
2. “Building Permits Off Here With 11 Issued for a Week,” Rocky Mount Telegram (Rocky Mount, NC), March 12, 1950, 26, accessed from www.newspapers.com; “Summers Amoco Station” (ad), Rocky Mount Telegram (Rocky Mount, NC), November 24, 1950, 13, accessed from www.newspapers.com; Hill’s 1952 Rocky Mount City Directory, 756 (street listing); “Business Prop’ty for Rent,” Rocky Mount Telegram, September 8, 1955, 23, accessed from www.newspapers.com; Hill’s 1955 Rocky Mount City Directory, 134 (street listing); Coscolluela, Nicole, Malorey Henderson, and Claire Kempa, “North Carolina Green Books Historic Preservation Study Report: Beaufort, Bertie, Caldwell, Davidson, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Nash, Pasquotank, Pitt, Rowan, and Wilson Counties,” HI 587: Cultural Resource Management, North Carolina State University, Spring 2016, 21.