Oh, the barbershop didn't exist in those days and Dyers market was the Post Office, [and] the little grocery store, the post office was the back right hand corner and Nelsie Hanon was in this little booth back there and she was our postmistress and you could get mail addressed to, well we got mail addressed to Mom and Pop Swick, Accokeek, and it would get to you...

Voices of Accokeek: The Town Doctor

... And then Ferguson Foundation had this doctor, Dr. Paul Chen. They got him to relocate out here into my building. And the Ferguson Foundation set him up with the supplies and equipment and...

I wasn't aware of that.

And then they called it the "Wilson Memorial Clinic." School children...School children in the old Accokeek school would come up there and see the store, and the service station that some of the comments was the first sidewalk and curb in Accokeek was there.

Little short space big enough for two cars. (Laughs)

It was the big city now, right?

Voices of Accokeek: The Fire Department

Mr. Wilson was a valiant force in Accokeek. If there had been more people like him we would have been a different community. He took the say... if he knew that something needed to be done, he would "take it by the horns," and go with it. He's the one who got the Fire Department.