Angola Public Square Circa 1870

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N E corner of Public Square.  The Empire store was moved from West Maumee St.  It was built around 1856 on the present site of the Odd Fellows Bldg.  As an annex to the Old Eagle Hotel, the 2nd story being uses as a ballroom.  A.W. Hendry and Henry Merriman bought it and move it to the east side of the square where it was fitted and used by them for a store room and known as the Empire Store.  A. W. A. Sirsle kept a furniture there at one time.  Mr S G Long kept the first 10 ¢store in Angola in there, about 1892 John Snyder used it for carriages and implements at one time.  This Bldg was moved to N Wayne St to make room for the present brick block an is now (1924) used by Greenwood Bodley as a plumbing shop.

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Angola Circa 1870

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Showing west side of Square, Dr Weicht's, Old Print Shop house and old M.E. Church in the distance.Carver Drug store and Post Office and "Old Hole in the Wall".  The Old Eldridge Home and Barns.   Just over the church the Freygang Home.  Center Lake in the distance.  (Right hand upper corner.)
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Angola Circa 1870

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NW Corner of Public Square showing the Ole Hole in the Wall, Old Carver Bldg with Center Lake in the distance.  The Methodist Church on the old site.  Old Brown Bldg, Myron Howard Saloon, Milo Davis lunchroom.  The old pound  where they ran in all the men that had imbided too freely of corn juice.  Also showing the yard where the other stray cattle were kept.  The Weaver home shows in the distance and the Old Mill.

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Angola: Southwest Corner Public Square Circa 1870

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Southwest corner of Public Square looking up West Maumee St.  The Patterson bldg. built by Robert Patterson, father of W.E. Patterson , built about It was the 1st 3 story brick bldg. in Angola and the first brick store bldg.
Mr. Patterson kept a General Store there many years.  Sold his stock of goods to L.B. Morse.  Later L.B. and S.A. Morse were together and still later Morse and Sons.

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Angola South West Public Square Circa 1870

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Showing old town pump.  Southwest corner of Public Square.  Jackson Block now the McDonald Block.  Andy Hackett Bakery.  The frame building to the east was built by Wm Earkuff  in 1854 who kept a store there, and Geo Emerson and Fred Chapin kept a general store there for many years.  Emerson occupying the 2nd story as a residence.  Charley Miller at one time kept a Grocery & provision store.  When Joseph Stiefel came to Angola in 1869 he commenced a business in the building.  It was occupied by Thomas Gillis with a grocery when it burned down about 1890.

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