Virtual Tour of Whitehead
Well, here's the sign out on NC-18 in Whitehead. Seems the town is about 4 inches wide.
The Union Primitive Baptist Church is likely the oldest surviving structure in town. It was established in 1834 and is located on the corner of NC-18 and Pine Swamp Road. Come to think of it, that's one of only two corners in town, the other being the corner NC-18 and Cheek Mountain Road.
This is the Whitehead Community Center. Built in 1914, it served as the Whitehead School, for grades 1 through 7, from 1915 until 1951. It's located on Cheek Mountain Road, about half a block from NC-18. Come to think of it, there are no crossing streets in Whitehead and, as such, you cannot turn in the wrong direction away from the school.
The Whitehead Community Store was built in 1946 and operated until a couple of years ago. You could buy groceries and tires there as well as get your lawnmower fixed. The newspaper rack just to the right of the front door (from which you can buy the Winston-Salem Journal for a quarter) is the only retail enterprise in Whitehead today. It's located on NC-18 across from the Whitehead signpost.
The Whitehead Post Office was located inside the store until it closed in the early 1990's. This USPS postbox, located outside the store, is the last remaining vestige of the post office in Whitehead. The mail, as you can see, is picked up once a day at 11:00am. That would be, of course, the time of day that the postman delivering mail to local addresses in the area drives by the store. It's a real nice postbox with a fresh coat of blue paint that sits on a concrete pad poured expressely for the purpose.
As for industry, there use to be a grist mill in town but it closed in the 1940's. Today there's Moxley's Machine Shop but its located north of downtown. The equipment is vintage WWII surplus. Now, the place isn't much to look at, but the fellow there is handy at welding heavy farm equipment, and repairing farm tractors and Triumph motorcycles.
Hope you folks have enjoyed your tour of historic Whitehead.
PS: Should anyone there at the Skunk Works be wondering if the town has any association with Uncle Bob, I can only say that it's highly unlikely. Yet there remains an outside chance, however small, because the place was named for a fellow named Whitehead.
The Union Primitive Baptist Church is likely the oldest surviving structure in town. It was established in 1834 and is located on the corner of NC-18 and Pine Swamp Road. Come to think of it, that's one of only two corners in town, the other being the corner NC-18 and Cheek Mountain Road.
This is the Whitehead Community Center. Built in 1914, it served as the Whitehead School, for grades 1 through 7, from 1915 until 1951. It's located on Cheek Mountain Road, about half a block from NC-18. Come to think of it, there are no crossing streets in Whitehead and, as such, you cannot turn in the wrong direction away from the school.
The Whitehead Community Store was built in 1946 and operated until a couple of years ago. You could buy groceries and tires there as well as get your lawnmower fixed. The newspaper rack just to the right of the front door (from which you can buy the Winston-Salem Journal for a quarter) is the only retail enterprise in Whitehead today. It's located on NC-18 across from the Whitehead signpost.
The Whitehead Post Office was located inside the store until it closed in the early 1990's. This USPS postbox, located outside the store, is the last remaining vestige of the post office in Whitehead. The mail, as you can see, is picked up once a day at 11:00am. That would be, of course, the time of day that the postman delivering mail to local addresses in the area drives by the store. It's a real nice postbox with a fresh coat of blue paint that sits on a concrete pad poured expressely for the purpose.
As for industry, there use to be a grist mill in town but it closed in the 1940's. Today there's Moxley's Machine Shop but its located north of downtown. The equipment is vintage WWII surplus. Now, the place isn't much to look at, but the fellow there is handy at welding heavy farm equipment, and repairing farm tractors and Triumph motorcycles.
Hope you folks have enjoyed your tour of historic Whitehead.
PS: Should anyone there at the Skunk Works be wondering if the town has any association with Uncle Bob, I can only say that it's highly unlikely. Yet there remains an outside chance, however small, because the place was named for a fellow named Whitehead.
Comments
Post a Comment