Number   00226

Scan Date   5/16/02

Time Period   1993

Subject Matter   Downtown Monroe

Location   222 North Main,  Monroe North Carolina

Description

Built by J. D. Stewart
1883 - 1920's this building housed English Drug Store on the 1st floor
Later it housed Lee's Shoe Store

Photographer (if known)   John Dickerson

The storefront to the right (with awning) was a former location of the Jones Drugstore in 1960 during the infamous drugstore sit-in where Robert Williams was arrested for trespassing on March 11, 1960.  (The address was 218 N. Main Street).  -Added by Patricia Poland, UCPL, 4/4/2013

Measurements of original photograph

Height  4"

Width  6"

Type of photograph  Color