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TAYLORSVILLE SIGNAL OFFICE AND WATKINS GENERAL STORE

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c. 1901. 326 Eureka St.

In 1901, Virgil Watkins began publishing the Taylorsville Signal, which continued until 1966. In 1903, he moved his general store and newspaper offices into this small wooden structure with drop siding and a pedimented front parapet. Relocated slightly south in 1973, it is now the Watkins Museum (open by appointment). It contains its original store shelving, counters, and display cases, a vintage printing press, and a potbellied stove. Across Eureka Street to the west at number 201 stands the pristinely rehabilitated, wooden, deeply bracketed Gulf and Ship Island/Illinois Central depot (after 1900).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "TAYLORSVILLE SIGNAL OFFICE AND WATKINS GENERAL STORE", [Taylorsville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM32.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 226-226.

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