Saturday, January 30, 2021
Jane Coomes
Monday, January 25, 2021
Bohon Company
This 1886 Sanborn Insurance map shows the George T. Bohon Carriage Factory on the corner of Main and East Office Streets, suggesting the manufacturing of “Bluegrass Buggies” was begun there. George Bohon had varied business interests before starting as a dealer in buggies, wagons, and agricultural implements. A description of the business on a sale flyer said: “The most reliable house in Central Kentucky for any kind of farming implements is that of George Bohon. If you want a farm wagon, buggy, carriage, engine, sawmill, or thresher, he can supply you with the best make. Too many goods – they must go! Hemp and manila twine for everybody!” The business closed in the early 1920s and the building was demolished to build the Harrodsburg Christian Church.
Monday, January 18, 2021
Frank's Cash Store
Photo from Images of America: Harrodsburg
Frank’s Cash Store was a typical general store of its day. Everything from produce to farm supplies was available. In the top photograph, Mr. Page Bailey is standing in the front of the store he manages while his son Paul is operating the awning. The business was located on the corner of Lexington and Chiles Streets, across from the Ingram Buick Garage.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Grain Elevator
Photo from Images of America: Harrodsburg
The presence of the railroad tracks and depot in the Marimon Avenue and Office Street area has attracted businesses such as coal and brickyards, flour mills, and grain elevators, all benefiting from the close proximity to shipping. In the late 1800s, J. D. Marimon had a flour mill there. By 1908 it was known as the City Roller Mill and by 1914, it was Adams and Langford, as shown in the photograph above. In the early 1920s, the Sandusky brothers took over its operation.
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Harrodsburg's First Service Station
Photo from Image of America: Harrodsburg
Another fixture at the corner of Broadway and Main Streets was a uniquely styled building which was Harrodsburg’s first service station. A Harrodsburg Herald article dated November 16, 1920 read “The wayfarer need not lack for gasoline as the city gets its first service station in addition to the established garages. The building is new and erected by the company of Consumers Service Stations, Inc. Rock Island, Illinois and is a bungalow type. Mr. Charles Davis, a Mercer County man who was a local farmer, was in charge of the station.”
Harrodsburg Opera House
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