Merchants in Clinton wasted no time in rebuilding after the big Market Street fire of 1908. This corner building, built by Colonel Calvin J. Sawyer, and it’s “twin” next door, the Rutherford Building, were completed before the end of 1908.…
First organized in 1831, the church was known as the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the General Conference of 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church officially split into two groups over the issue of slavery. The first Methodist Episcopal church was built…
The Union Bank of Clinton was chartered in 1894. The bank building, constructed on this site in 1901-02, survived both the 1905 and 1908 Market Street fires, even acting as a block that stopped the fire from burning other buildings…
In the weeks following Market Street’s “big fire” of 1908, new brick buildings were built at a rapid pace. This building, built by R. Rutherford, and it’s “twin” on the corner, built by C.J. Sawyer, were completed and occupied before…
In 1909, this property was purchased by The Leinart Company composed of T.H. Leinart, J.O. Leinart, and R.E. Leinart. A smaller wooden post office building existed here prior to the big 1908 Market Street fire but was soon replaced with…
