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Interview no. | R-0764 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.42. Special Research Projects: West Southern Pines, N.C. |
Project description | This is a collection of interviews conducted in 1982 by Nancy O. Mason of Southern Pines, North Carolina with residents of part of Southern Pines which used to be its own, predominantly Black township in the 1920s, called West Southern Pines. West Southern Pines was annexed back into Southern Pines in the 1930s, but the twenty-six interviews attest to the longevity of the West Southern Pines community. Both black and white residents of West Southern Pines tell their recollections of the incorporation of West Southern Pines and the daily lives of its inhabitants. |
Date | 15 March 1982 |
Interviewee | Ross, George. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | George Ross moved to West Southern Pines in 1926, where his mother bought a lot and had a house built on the peach orchard. Up to that point, he had lived on his parents’ farm in Scotland County. Ross went to school on New York Avenue. George relates that his mother, Josephine Ross, was the first black woman to work at Moore County Hospital. Ross remembers the shopping in West Southern Pines in 1926. Retail business included the Kimball store, “a nice size wooden building, but it was more like a trading store, a drug store, and small grocery stores: one owned by Jim Bethea, one owned by Charlie Boggan, and one owned by Mrs. Bennett. Ross recalls the reputation of West Southern Pines at that time as a haven for criminals, and names gamblers and outlaws who resided there. Ross didn’t go out into the streets after dark for fear of these “bad men.” Ross has some memory of the shooting death of Amos Broadway in the late 1930s. Ross concludes that development of West Southern Pines didn’t ramp up until many years after its annexation into Southern Pines. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on March 15, 1982. It is part of a series of interviews with people who lived in or around West Southern Pines as it had existed as a separate and entirely African American municipality from 1923 to 1931. |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with George Ross by Nancy Mason, 15 March 2981, R-0764, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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