Bruce Strowd

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. about 1913 Strowd's Garage opens in Chapel Hill as the first garage in Orange County A plate caption identifies Strowd's Garage in Chapel Hill, pictured about 1913, as the county's first garage. People: Bruce StrowdSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), image 123
2. February 7, 1925 Bruce Strowd opens his new Ford dealership at Franklin and Columbia streets Strowd Motor Company formally opened its new Ford sales and service building at 100 West Franklin Street, on the corner of Columbia, with a dance and contests. Chapel Hill's first automobile dealer had outgrown his quarters; the two-story brick building, one of the largest downtown, went up in 1924 on the old Carr place, with the showroom and service area below and a paint and body shop above. People: Bruce StrowdSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1925, p. 2
3. July 1937 The county welfare department is reorganized under Social Security A new three-member welfare board of O. L. Crabtree, Bruce Strowd and Charlie McDade, a Black member, took charge, and W. T. Mattox became superintendent in July 1937. The office moved to Hillsborough that year and kept a branch in Chapel Hill. People: Bruce StrowdSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 211
4. December 20, 1937 Bruce Strowd is named Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen The Carolina Theatre's yearly trophy for the town's most valuable citizen went to automobile dealer Bruce Strowd, chosen by Dr. S. A. Nathan, Mrs. Isaac Manning and W. M. Pugh. The committee cited his work for the town's schoolchildren, the free rides he gave rural children coming to school, his help with unemployment and his work on the county welfare board. People: S. A. NathanSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1937, p. 1 (Strowd Is Valuable)
5. February 1950 Andrews and Riggsbee sell their Carrboro grocery to two other men named Andrews and Riggsbee The partners Andrews and Riggsbee sold their Carrboro grocery to two men also named Andrews and Riggsbee, who kept the store's name. The sellers kept the tractor business they had bought from Bruce Strowd, which was moving into a new building on Greensboro Street. People: Bruce StrowdSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 24, 1950, p. 6
6. 1953 Bruce Strowd sells his car business to Crowell Little and Grady Pritchard After thirty years at 100 West Franklin Street, Strowd sold the dealership in 1953. The new owners kept it in the same building for two more years. People: Bruce StrowdSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 59