Showing posts with label Kolp. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 11, 2020
Friday, September 29, 2017
OLD LAND MARK REMOVED
August 31, 1894, Roberts was almost entirely wiped out (that is the business district) by a fire which started at the noon hour and within a few hours the district from the corner almost to the hospital corner (on the south side of the street) was nothing but a smoking pile of ashes.
The first man to erect a new building on the burned over tract was John Kolp, who built a new blacksmith shop where his old one had stood. This new shop served its purpose for many years but during the past few years it has been vacant and because of being vacant it has become dilapidated.
Monday of this week is was torn down and thus after standing for forty-seven years, it is gone.
--Roberts Herald. 23 July 1941.
The first man to erect a new building on the burned over tract was John Kolp, who built a new blacksmith shop where his old one had stood. This new shop served its purpose for many years but during the past few years it has been vacant and because of being vacant it has become dilapidated.
Monday of this week is was torn down and thus after standing for forty-seven years, it is gone.
--Roberts Herald. 23 July 1941.
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