History · Pearsonville

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How Pearsonville came to be

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Pearsonville was named for Lucy and Andrew Pearson, who founded the town on a 40-acre plot of land they purchased in 1960. The Pearson family started Pearson's Auto Wrecking, a vehicle towing and recovery business, in 1964. Lucy Pearson collected thousands of hubcaps, earning the title "the Hubcap Queen", In its heyday in the 1980s, Pearsonville had a post office, as well as a general store, restaurant, automobile parts store, 24-hour towing service, motorcycle racetrack (the Pearsonville Speedway) and a trailer park, and the town was known informally as the "hubcap capital of the world". Today, it is a ghost town, consisting of a gas station, convenience store, a small museum and antique store. The automobile salvage (Pearson's Auto Wrecking) business is still operational, and there is also an 18-foot-tall molded fiberglass sculpture of the "Uniroyal Gal".

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