By: Stan Jordan
This is an enlarged postcard picture that Marty Hunt brought in. I will tell you all that I know and remember of this area.
Where you are looking at now is where the fire house is on the corner of Cleveland and Daggett. That was a livery stable for many years. See on that roof is a little air exchange, I imagine that after a few days, the odor got a little horsey.
Then you can see the new catholic church and off in your left that other steeple is the old St. Mary’s Church and later used as a school over on the corner of Washington and Monroe Street.
I assume the date is after 1900 and before 1923. Cleveland Street was paved in 1923, Then in 1924 the chair factory was built right where this photographer stood.
This livery stable was of many uses in those years. It was a place where they peeled tomatoes many times. The county or township kept some of the equipment in there. Then it was demolished and the fire house was built there around 1963. The tall house up to your right was the home of Perl Longberry.
The smaller house on this side of there was the home of Nettie Terwilliger and later on Dale or Ducky Swann. There was one more little house there west of the livery stable, a man named Bill Barnhart lived there. It caught fire and burned down and that later became the home of our EMS.
Now that corner is a very busy corner and over the years, shows how much the town has advanced.
See ya!
