1950 – 75 years ago Rochester’s newest and one of the largest retail stores, the F. W. Woolworth store, at South Broadway and Second Street SW, will be open for business on the morning of Feb. 9.

George Clinton Murphy had already built one chain of dime stores (which he sold to F.W. Woolworth Co.) when he opened the first of his G.C. Murphy Co. stores in 1906 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin "Skip" Alston, who along with Earl Jones, then a Greensboro city ...

"The site was previously occupied by the F W Woolworth store. Known as Woolworths store number 912, this was the nine-hundred and twelfth branch of Woolworths to open in the British Isles ...

The property of the Woolworth stores is the envy of most business executives of the country. The stock of the company rises continually, during depressions and booms alike. The directors have now ...

"To be at the age when he did this, I cannot fathom how much he went through and how traumatizing it was," granddaughter ...

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Saturday will mark 65 years since four Black college students (David Richmond, Frank Mccain, Ezell Blair Junior, who is now ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Saturday will mark 65 years since four Black college students (David Richmond, Frank Mccain, Ezell Blair Junior, who is now known as Jibreel Khazan, and Joseph ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...