 Throughout the communities, many businesses flourished.The Wards, 3rd, 4th and 5th had many restaurants, theaters, clubs, boarding houses, carriage delivery services, millinery shops (hat shops), stationery shops, newspaper publishers, dry goods stores, banks-savings and loans, insurance companies, seamstresses and tailor shops just to name a few.There were two major office buildings that housed many African American businesses, the Pilgrims Building https