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 of the square.  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 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:

 

  

A customer at Hendrix-McDanell Motors

 

Gallatin County Jail 

 

Gallatin County Jail
. . . a personal note on this one, here.

 

 

left, The Alerts Base Ball Team, 1906
center, Warsaw Baseball, unknown year
right, The 1905 Warsaw Baseball Team, details here.

 

County Road Machinery
Tom Morris and Joe Eddie Miller

 

The men in charge of the celebration on the
opening of US 42, October 29, 1930.  Names here.

 

L-R, Ed Lamkin, Ike Watson, W. R. Payne. J. W. Connley, and George Winters

 

  This cannon was at what was then the front of the courthouse, left to right: 
Lan Gardner, Frank Allen, George W. Winters, and Louis R. Hall 
Two interesting interviews with G. Winters are here, and here.

 

Warsaw boys in front of Hendrix-McDanell Motors, June 19, 1932
from the left, Rex Wheeler, Harlan Shupert, J. W. Spencer, Steward Roberts

 

Col. John J. Landrum

 

Marching Band in Warsaw.  1930's? 1940's?


 

The Gallatin County  Band Boosters, July, 1926
a list of the personnel is here

 

That's Downtain Jones driving the horses, 1920's

 

Warsaw, an early 1900 Fire Engine, 
obviously taken at a later date


An early Warsaw Fire Department,
David Webb gives me the scoop on who and where,  read it here.

In 1904, G. F. G. reminisces about the Warsaw of old, here.

An unnamed correspondent describes, in detail, the Warsaw of 1880, here.

Death of Henry Johnson, Warsaw Barber, here.

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