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Safe Bus Company
The Safe Bus Company operated in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1926 to 1972. The company was originally formed to provide transportation to the city’s underserved black neighborhoods. In the 1920s, segregation reached into nearly every aspect of...
Quick Steps: All-Black Volunteer Firefighters in Elizabeth City, NC
The oldest fire truck in the museum's collection replaced a horse-drawn hook and ladder in one Tarheel city and was used by a particularly skilled group of firefighters. The Quick Step Hook and Ladder Company, was Elizabeth City’s all-black volunteer fire company,...
History That Matters
The tale of how Spencer Shops, now home of the N.C. Transportation Museum, came to be located in a rural area just north of the city of Salisbury includes secret land deals with a former U.S. Representative, a railroad needing to keep locomotives on the move, and a...