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AHOSKIE
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Downtown Ahoskie didn't have paved streets when the town was only a few years old.
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Grading and tying tobacco to get it ready for sale in 1959. |
A parade down Main Street, perhaps in 1920. Now what kind of truck is leading the way‘>
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A mighty snow fell on Main Street in 1927 or was it '28?
Mrs. Irene J. Newsome Yeates taught the fourth grade at Vann School for more than 50 years. ^
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Sheriff A.E. Garrett shows off the family car in 1917.
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The Bank of Ahoskie, as seen from No Man's Land, in the 1920's before the Great Depression. Main Street gets its first pavement, probably in the late 1920's
The Jimmy Clark band performed in the late 1930’s and early 1940's around Ahoskie. Can you name these performers? (Photo courtesy of Bob Brown)
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