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Columbia's Building Boom, 1903 By JIM Adair County entered 1903 brimming with optimism, and Columbia found itself on the leading edge of a building boom, fueled in the main by the national economy and by the imminent arrival of the Lindsey Wilson Training School. L.B. Hurt already had most of the lumber on the ground for a new residence, design not yet revealed, for the John Lowe family up on Jamestown Street Hill. In addition, Col. Hurt planned to erect two more residences nearby "on the hill, just above" Mr. Lowe's site, but on the other side of the street. W.F. Jeffries & Sons Hardware moved into their brand new building on the exit corner of Jamestown Street just before the new year opened and only days afterward came news that Russell & Murrell had bought from Mont Cravens the lot between Jeffries and the Reed & Miller store (where Nell's Variety was located years later) with the intention of putting a grand new retail house there for their ever-increasing trade. That building never came to fruition on the site, but another one did. Just weeks later, Mr. Russell sold the lot to the newly organized First National Bank of Columbia, and before long, that edifice began to rise; it opened in November that year. (It would be another decade before Russell & Murrell, by then styled as Russell & Co., would move from its founding location on the corner of Burkesville Street and the square.) Plans called for work on the W.R. Myers' house, just north of the square on Campbellsville St., to commence with the arrival of spring, at an estimated cost $6,000. Up on Arbor Vitae Hill, work was also slated to begin on the much-anticipated Lindsey-Wilson building with the advent of warmer weather, as was construction on the new Cumberland Presbyterian church building. Of the latter, The News had reported a few months earlier that George W. Robertson, acting as agent for the church's building committee, had "purchased the late A.E. Sallee property, situated on Burkesville street, just above the Hancock Hotel, for $900." The building would be made of brick and was expected to cost several thousand dollars to put up. (This never materialized. A note in the paper in the spring of 1906 stated, "A.D. Coy has removed his family from over his grocery store to the Sallee property, near the Hancock Hotel.") In addition to these specific projects, the paper also informed readers that "Plans are being laid for opening new streets, and at this writing it is difficult to estimate the number of new buildings that will go up in Columbia during the year 1903." A bumper year for Columbia's growth, indeed! This story was posted on 2022-12-31 10:37:05
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The Columbia Kroger Store, 1936 - 1959 IGA Super Market on the Columbia Square Early December 1942 Letter: A few notes on Willis Furniture The Mary Jane Blakeman lot (Patteson Building) New of Columbia from late November, 1932 Adair County odds and ends, mid-October, 1932 Some more information about The Columbia Bakery September 2 is the birthday of Adair Co. Hero Col. Frank Wolford 85 years ago: Grocery stores galore! View even more articles in topic Jim: History |
 
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