Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ross-Clayton Funeral Home was the largest Black funeral chapel in the city and has a long history of community service, particularly during the civil rights movement. [12] [13] The funeral home supported the movement by providing transportation for black voters and participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, [14] [15] conduct class for colored wardens, with E. P. Wallace, serving as the ...
North Carolina Highway 410 moves north–south through the town. Until 1955, the town was a transfer point for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad passenger trains to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina . At Chadbourn, connections could be made to trains bound for Florence, South Carolina , Sumter, South Carolina and Columbia 's Union Station , Augusta ...
The Alexander Funeral Home is the oldest African American owned business in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Alexander Funeral Home was founded by Zechariah Alexander in 1914 when Alexander bought half of Coles and Smith Undertakes. In 1927 Alexander purchased the remaining part of the business and changed the name to the Alexander Funeral Home.
Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media ...
A crematorium, crematory or cremation center is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also be a venue for open-air cremation.
Biscoe Township, population 5,765, [3] is one of eleven townships in Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States. Biscoe Township is 47.97 square miles (124.2 km 2) [1] in size and is located in the east central part of the county. The Towns of Biscoe and Candor are located in this township.
NC 410 was established in 1936 as a new primary routing from US 74/US 76 in Chadbourn to NC 41/NC 87 in Dublin. By 1938, NC 410 was extended south as new primary routing to US 701 in Tabor City. [2] In 1949, NC 410 was extended to the South Carolina state line, replacing US 701, and continuing south as SC 410. [3]
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]