1928 - Alderson High School - 1968
Only Yesterday In Alderson - Page1
Tom Dixon
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Railroad
Avenue
looking
West
in
1907.
Note
that
the
First
National
Bank
occupies
only
half
of
its
building's
first
floor,
a
dry
goods
store
operated
by
I.
E.
Bare
taking
up
the
additional
storeroom.
Two
doors
down
the
street
the
Greenbrier
Valley
Bank
was
still
in
operation.
Trees
lined
the
broad
dirt
street
which
was
the
focus
of
the
town's
commercial
life.
It
was
another
world
then
and
this
photo
seems
to
capture
it
well
despite
the
damage
to
the
original
glass
negative.
"0,
Call
back
yesterday,
Bid
time
return"
(Shakespeare). - Photo by J. W. McClung.
North
Alderson
was
brought
into
the
corporate
limits
of
the
town,
about
the
time
this
photo
was
taken
looking
northwest
from
Reservoir
Hill.
Visible
towards
the
center
of
the
picture
are
the
Old
Greenbrier
Baptist
Church,
the
Alderson
Academy,
and
the
Public
School
building
(with
small
belfry).
Several
folks
are
out
practicing
on
the
baseball
diamond
in
the
right
foreground
and
just
about
everyone
has
a
cornfield
in
his
back
yard
Photo
by
J.
W. McClung.
This
1917
photo
shows
a
grown-up
town,
North
and
South
of
the
river.
Prominent
on
the
south
side
are
the
passenger
and
freight
stations,
the
Alderson
House
Hotel,
and
the
main
business
district.
The
old
livery
stable
in
the
lower
left
has
already
become
the
Alderson
Garage,
and
according
to
the
poster,
the
circus
is
due
soon.
North
of
the
"new
bridge"
the
Alderson
National
Bank
and
the
new
brick
Public
School
building
dominates.
It
must
have
been
Sunday
when
Mr.
McClung
took
this
photo
as
no
pedestrian
or vehicular traffic is seen except at the depot.
The
first
Chesapeake
&
Ohio
depot
in
Alderson
is
seen
in
this
1891
photo.
It
later
became
the
freight
station
and
was
finally
demolished
in
1962.
Here
local
train
#13
and
passengers
look
like
they
stepped
off
the
the
movie
Union
Pacific.
Lon
Alley
for
40
years
an
engineer
of
this
division
leans
from
the
cab
of
his
1873
4-4-0
locomotive
with
equally
ancient
cars
behind.
Photo
C&O
Historical Society Collection.
Former President Benjamin Harrison speaks to Aldersonians on
a whistle stop campaign in behalf of the Republican candidate,
William McKinley, in 1896.