Fick's Carriage Shop
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Bull Durham Casino (Fick's Carriage Shop)
c. 1877. 110 Main (northeast corner of Gregory St.)
William Fick, a Prussian immigrant, built heavy-duty “Black Hawk Wagons” with large double wheels for mountain use. His thriving wagon-building, repair, and blacksmith shop occupied this two-story granite building with a fancy brick front. After the auto age eroded business, another owner made a few dollars by allowing the large Bull Durham sign to be painted across the facade. It is one of the few remaining signs of thousands painted nationwide by traveling crews
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