This document provides information about black-owned businesses that existed in Staunton, Virginia between 1916-1917. It lists the names of 11 black business owners from that period, including dressmakers, an insurance company, a pressing parlor, hairdressers, a funeral director, and a pharmacy. The document also notes the locations of important places in the black community from that time, such as churches, the Booker T. Washington school, and other landmarks.

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Historic Staunton Foundation
Preservation Brown Bag Series
Sunnyside, 1916-1917
black business locations
with ca. 1950 map base
Sources: Staunton City Directory,
1916-1917; City of Staunton
ca 1950 aerial
April 1, 2016
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a. demolished
Sunnyside
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Baptist
N.AugustaStreet
Caroline
Tams
Purviance
Dover
Sunnyside
Sunnyside
Sunnyside
Points
Prospect
Academy
N.NewStreet
N.AugustaStreet
N.New
N.AugustaStreet
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Black Owned businesses,
1916-1917
a. Helen C. Allen,
dressmaker
b. Regal Drug Store
c. American Beneficial
Insurance Co. of
Richmond
d. Richmond Beneficial
Insurance Co.
e. Virginia Pressing Parlor
f. Rheba A. Ware,
hairdresser
g. Andrew L. Billups,
funeral director
h. Banks Pharmacy
i. Mary E. Banks,
dressmaker
j. Hugh Murray, eating
house
k. Nannie J. Marshall,
grocer
l. Sarah Henderson, hair
dresser
m. Jennie Garland, midwife
Places of Note:
1. Gallows Town (1793),
Staunton Theater and
Colored Dance Hall,
Pannell House Hotel
2. Mount Zion Baptist
Church
3. Ebenezer Baptist Church
4. Augusta Street United
Methodist Church
5. Booker T. Washington, (D.
Webster Davis, House of
Prayer)
6. Stuart Tate House, 219
Sunnyside
7. Stuart Tate Brick Yard
8. The Club
9. Mrs. Clair Sheffey House,
517 Baptist
10. Arch Rock Tea Room
(George Taylor Market,
Marino’s)
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