Sausage Factory + Ragland’s Garage, 1940s, Lyerly

Though this building is better remembered as a garage and filling station, Derek Reynolds wrote that it was originally a sausage factory. Marie Hanna wrote that it was the Ragland gas station and was used to store old cars. Billy W. Gilliland added: The building Marie referred to as the Ragland gas station is partially correct. It was a gas station, but was officially Ragland’s garage. They worked on cars, trucks and tractors, and fixed flat tires. They also did welding and anything else you needed done. Selling gas was probably just a small part of their business. You could always count on the for quality work and reasonable prices. Prior to that it was Sitton’s garage.

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