In 1920, A.B. McLaren purchased and tore down the old Edwards Mill that had sat next to the C & EI RR tracks for decades cranking out woolen and cotton materials and garments. Continue reading
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Reach and Son Battery manufacturing plant was gutted Friday at 9:30 pm by a fire that is believed to have started around a small gas burner used for heating sealing compound. Continue reading
Coal miners rode the electric line to get to work and school children watched plays like “Peck’s Bad Boy” at an opera house on Union Street. Continue reading
It is pretty well established that the Williamson County Fair has been, in the past, a very big affair not only for the county but for the entire region as well. So large were the crowds and conversely the numbers of automobiles that there is no way the fairground could handle all of the automobiles. The solution was to park elsewhere and catch a ride to the fair. Continue reading
Announcement of the closing of the Orpheum Theatre as a result of the owners decision not to correct fire and safety hazards cited by state and city officials rang down the curtain of a show house that was the city’s chief place of entertainment during most of its more than a half century of operation. Continue reading