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Fire

Sun Newspaper Story

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SUN newspaper story (sample) Date @1975

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fire, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Block

Wolfe Brother’s Office Fire

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Taken from 2nd Ave SW looking west at destruction. Date @1975

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fire, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Brother's Office

Theater After Being Burned Down

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The Strand Theater and ruins Date @1975

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags 35mm Slide Collection, Fire, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Block

Wolfe Building Fire

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The collapse of the corner 1st St and 2nd Ave (one of many outside fire … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags 35mm Slide Collection, Ask R Thomas, Fire, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Brother's Office

Strand Theater

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The LAST Audience at the STRAND Theater — The last show was spectacular! Date @1975

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags 35mm Slide Collection, Ask R Thomas, Fire, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Block

City Hall on Fire

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Tower hose applied to roof as fire engulfs the building. Keep roof of city hall … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Ask R Thomas, Fire, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Block

Remains of Fire

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The remains — destruction Date @1975

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Ask R Thomas, Fire, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Brother's Office

Holiday House Fire

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Holiday House fire Date @1969

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Fire, Glass Negative, Men, Mount Vernon, Where is this?, Who am I?

Fire

photo of Fire-1967

Date @1967

Categories Commercial District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Fire, Mount Vernon, Where is this?

Fire

photo of Fire-1975

Date @1975

Categories Commercial District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fire, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Mount Vernon

Fire

photo of Fire

Photo taken by John Shackford Date @1975

Categories Commercial District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Fire, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Men, Mount Vernon

Wolfe Block

photo of Wolfe Block

Wolfe block well before the fire of 1975 — all stores/space occupied. City Hall 1915 … Read more …

Categories Commercial District - Photos, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Ask R Thomas, Commercial Historic District, Fire, Glass Negative, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Mount Vernon, Wolfe Block
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2 years ago

Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission
The MVHPC partnered with the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Development Group on the placement of two new informational kiosks about the history of the Lincoln Hwy in Lisbon and Mount Vernon. There was a commemoration at the Kiosk in Lisbon on Oct. 6 with a poem created for the event by Poet Laureate Amanda Kibbie. The MV Kiosk is located in Prairie Park next to the Cornell football field. The MV kiosk faces one of the last remaining brick portions of the Lincoln Hwy and is near the 10th Avenue Overpass. The overpass was built in approximately 1910 as a part of the Lincoln Hwy. Credit to Steven Ciha of the LCHPC for images. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 years ago

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UPDATE!!! Thanks to Jay and Arlie Willems, the circa 1910 glass negatives are now in the Mount Vernon Archives. We are grateful to Arlie and Jay for transporting the negatives and to Joe Burkart of Crestview Florida for donating them.Photo collectors in Crestview Florida have glass plate negatives of a photographer named Hodson who worked in and around Mount Vernon in 1910. The collectors have offered the negatives to the MVHPC. The plates are fragile and very heavy, so shipping them is not a good option. Is anyone planning to travel by car to Florida anytime in the next year and willing pick up these negatives in the panhandle of the state? If so, please send a message on this site to the site administrator. ... See MoreSee Less
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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission updated their status.

2 years ago

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