O.B. Taylor was a black man who grew up in Creedmoor, and went on to become a physician in Knoxville, Tennessee. He once wrote about those years when he was young and his remembrances of Creedmoor in the early 1900s. Dr. Taylor wrote the following in 1961.
“Surrounded by an industrious, proud, and energetic group of farmers served to make Creedmoor an important local trading center. Fleming and Lyon were proprietors of the first store I can recall. Mr. Sam C. Lyon, going further south on Depot Street, erected a rather imposing building which was called S.C. Lyon General Merchandise. On the same street was the business of Fleming and Wagstaff. L.H. Longmire also ran a store during this time. Mr. Badger Rogers owned a clothing store.”
“Netherly and Howerton operated a thriving business in repairing buggies and wagons. From Henderson came an efficient, congenial Negro, Lindover Hockaday, for a time Creedmoor’s only blacksmith. Across the railroad track was a saloon in those days that appeared to be appreciated. A sawmill, planning mill, two brick kilns, a grist mill, which all did a bristling business which caused the Seaboard Air Line, then the Durham and Northern Railroad, to enlarge its switching yard facilities and extend spur tracks to these plants.”…