George’s Grocery & Grill (ca. 1990s) 165 N. Potomac Street

In the 1990s, George Thompson and his wife, Myrtle Thompson, both Lumbee, rented the store at 165 N. Potomac Street and opened George’s Grocery & Grill. They sold groceries as well as prepared foods—especially George’s famous BBQ. After some years, George left the store but continued to sell BBQ from his Dundalk home until he moved back to North Carolina. The sign for George’s Grocery and Grill still hangs from the formstone at the corner of N. Potomac and E. Fayette Streets, although the property is now home to a different business.