Leaksville Historical Photos
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1- First Airmail fight from Leaksville, W.W. Hampton (right),
Postmaster
2- A Leaksville service station, 1920s...Ben and Frank
Eggleston
3- The Lily B. Morehead, first locomotive to enter Leaksville,
1883
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on the pictures below for a larger view:
4- Hampton Two-seated surry, made in Leaksville 1900. Price: $115.00. Click
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7- Ivie Brothers on Washington Street about 1906...proprietors R. H.
and J. W. Ivie Click
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10- Glenn School, near Leaksville, c.1920
5-
Charlie Pruitt and his bus, 1909 (note the "Leaksville, Spray, Draper
on the side).
6- Price Photo Studio on the Boulevard, 1922
8- Floyd Hill Furniture staff on the Boulevard, 1904
9-
The Carolina Ramblers, (left to right) Posey Rorer, Charlie
Poole (seated) and Rob Harvey.
11- Dr. John B. Ray,
practiced medicine in the Leaksville area from 1898 until 1958.
12- Doffers
at Spray Cotton Mill, 1912. Child labor was common in the textile industry at
the time.
13- The Leaksville Covered Bridge