Cross the border from North Carolina to South Carolina on Highway 176 and you will stumble across a retro replica of an Esso station named “Silver Springs Filling Station.” It has a traditional 1930s Wayne gravity-powered gasoline pump and a kerosene barrel as well. There is an outhouse back behind the building to complete the recreation. Standard Oil was broken up into dozens of companies in 1911. Standard Oil of New Jersey had control over New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington D.C., and became…
