Warsaw, Gallatin County, Kentucky

B. K. Bailey's Drug Store
Is that B K Bailey standing in front? Don't know.
I know this building stood where the present Warsaw
Pharmacy now stands. That's US 42 going toward
Louisville to the left.

Interior of Drug Store
clerk thought to be Nettie Weldon

S. P. Grubbs, Coal Dealer
Between Main Cross and Second, on Locust

"Warsaw's river front has taken on a cityfied air since S. P. Grubbs' coal elevator has begun operations. The coal digger arrived Friday and started to unload a barge of slack coal for the Warsaw Furniture Manufacturing Company Saturday. The elevator is quite an improvement over the old way of unloading barges as the coal is scooped out of the barge by machinery and hauled to the top of the incline where it is dumped into a large hopper, which in turn loads the wagons as they drive under it, doing away with much of the labor required in the past." Warsaw Independent, March 16, 1910

Clore Printing.
Home of the Warsaw Leader, c. 1910.

Interior of Hall & Abbott's Hardware Store
A little background on this one, here.

left, livery stable, under the hill
right, livery stable, above the hill

The Clover Farm Store, c. 1948

Weldon's Grocery Store
US 42 at Main Cross
(man posing with bike is Jack Howe)

Interior of Perry Weldon's Grocery
Dean Richards, Barker Holcomb, unknown, Perry Weldon, unknown

This early drug store actually sat on the court house square. On the southwest corner was an old jail. Details on the folks in the picture, here.

The Tobacco Prizing House
(Across Main Cross from Gardt's Tavern)

J. K. Nesbit, Warsaw Undertaker

This is a Coke Distribution truck, outside their warehouse at Locust & Main Cross. That's Gardt's Saloon on the left. That's George Henry on the truck, and a father & son both named Elliott Breeden

J. H. McDanell & Son
(later, Conrad Hardware)

Now part of Maines Hardware, earlier the US
Post Office, and in this scene, a Confectionary.

Louis Gutting's Meat Market
east side of Main Cross
That's Clarence Abbott, Hugh Griffin, Mr. Brown, Gutting (in the shadows) and unknown.
Did you pick up on the dog in the store behind Mr. Brown? Close up's here.

Herrick's Carriage Shop
Across 42 from the Methodist Church

Warsaw Transfer Company
east side of Main Cross, between Main and Market

George Thompson's "Crown Mills" Flouring Plant
later, Wilson's Lumber Comapny

Lanham's Furniture Shops
sorta where Kentucky Auto Parks is now
Folks in the right pic identified here.

the McDanell Furniture Factory

McDanell Factory Burns in 1905; is rebuilt, story here.

There were three Warsaw Furniture Factories. McDanell's was between Second and Sparta Pike, behind the residences on the south side of Pearl. Lanham's (you may also hear it described as Prill's, who were later owners) was on Main Street, behind where Kentucky Motors is today. The third, the Bogardus Factory, was across 42 from the Cemetery, and was only torn down in the last decade.

Looking toward the Courthouse, from the jail

Funeral of Harry Hanson, 1901
on Main Cross, between Main and Market
More, here.

Court House Square
Charlie Hutchinson and Claude Osborne are two of the men.
I'm told they were selling these as egg baskets. Can you image
the weight of one of these things filled eggs?

East on Market, from Main Cross

Mack Furnish, next to Clore's truck
That's the courthouse in the background

Old Hardware Store
northeast corner of Market and Main Cross
That's Margaret G. and Gip Beall

Gutting Corner in a 1930's snow

left, Wharf boat from High street
right, Civil War Vets in Warsaw Cemetery

Corner of High Street and 3rd, 1937

Looking north on Sparta Pike
(Women's Club in background)

looking toward Warsaw, on Sparta Pike, from the Toll gate

Main Street, circa 1950

Main Street, 1964

Main Street, Warsaw, Kentucky
US 42, going East

Looking Northeast, on High Street,
from in front of the Opera House
The Warsaw Opera House was on High Street, roughly
across the street from where the Baptist Church is today.

Leaving Warsaw, going East, c. 1912

Watermelon Eating Contest. Entrants here.

The courthouse used to face the river. This is what was then - c. 1880 - the back of the courthouse, with a drug store on the southeast corner. A little more info is here. That's Craig's Hardware in the far back, between the two.

This is a privy that used to sit on the southwest corner of the court house square. There was, earlier, a jail on this site, and it's unknown is whether any part of this structure was a part of that jail.

I.O.O.F. Opera House
An Opera House at this time in US history should *not* be thought
to have very much, if anything, to do with fat ladies in Viking
Helmets, singing in Italian. They were used for all kinds of high
brow and low brow performances, entertainments and
traveling shows. The I.O.O.F. is International Order of Odd Fellows. See below.

Want a sample program of the Opera House Fare? Go here

Most towns the size of Warsaw had an opera house. The programs below
are the type of fare you could typically find at a small town opera house: