Wow! It's been years since I started this blog- actually had forgotten all about it! Many of the businesses that were highlighted back the are still in Downtown Wallace- and a bunch more have been added! Maybe I can find a few minutes here and there to get this updated!

Thanks to Duplin Times reporter Mike Staton for sharing this- he found some old photos from the 1950's in the library in Wallace. He said that it was from an energy company promotion to celebrate home towns. This looks to be the intersection of Main & College looking west.

This is a postcard of Main Street in Wallace from the 1950's. Lookinf from the intersection of Main & Railroad- looking east. There was an original in a shop in Magnolia a few years ago.

Found this photo online when looking for info on the Strawberry Festival in Wallace- this is from the 1930's.

The Paisley-Boney Building circa 1949. In 1949 this building housed The Dollar Store downstairs and the Law Office of E.C. Sanderson, the Ralph Carlton Insurance Agency and the Dental Office of Dr C.V. Zibelin (sp?) upstairs. This photo was taken on the Grand Opening Day of the Dollar Store. The space currently houses The Verandah and the Doctors Vision Center downstairs, and upstairs is storage. I have heard that The Verandah's space originally was the A&P Grocery. Photo courtesy of Shirley Carlton

Welcome to Discover Historic Downtown Wallace. So many people who have lived here all their lives have come by my shop and told me a story about when it used to be a clothing store- and what used to be across the street...they've told me about people selling strawberries along the railroad tracks and summer festivals. My hope is to collect those memories from people- and have others in the communtiy add their own, as well as take a pictoral tour of Downtown and dig up the history of the buildings there.