George Street 1944

Approach to George Street from St. Augustine Rd., Chesapeake City – Circa 1944

 

This is approaching George Street from Saint Augustine Road. The house at far right was the residence of Jim and Margaret Mackey. Margaret played the organ for the Trinity Methodist Church and also taught piano lessons. I remember Jim when he worked for Walter Colling’s store on Bohemia Avenue. Shortly after this picture was taken, most of these houses on the east side of South George Street were razed in order to make room for the overhead bridge pillars. From left to right, these are the people who lived in the houses at one time: the Noland family (left side) and Capt. Neddy Cooling (right side), the Filigame family, empty lot where the first Methodist Church was located, Miss Mary Miller, the Lum Family, Albert Moore’s house (still there), Ninch Borger house, which burned down about twenty years ago and was rebuilt. John Sager told me that it was one of the oldest houses in town. Notice the welcome sign, which has been there as long as I can remember. It welcomes you to town but warns, “Slow Down!”