This interesting structure stands [barely] behind a larger collapsed structure. I believe it had some public use, perhaps as an office.
Unidentified Building, Berner
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Hi again! I just left a comment on your other Berner post of the general store. This structure was connected to the collapsed structure you refer to. The entire thing was my great-grandparents’ general store, run by my great-grandmother, Annie Sutton Bridges, while my great-grandfather, Morgan Bennett Bridges, worked as a telegraph operator at the Juliette Depot. Annie’s brother, Jack (Andrew Jackson Sutton) ran the other store on the corner that is still standing. I have a photo of this store, after it closed but before it collapsed, from a 1974 newspaper article where Morgan was interviewed. The viewpoint is from the back of the store, standing on the other side of the train tracks. According to my dad, there was once a gas pump at this store; he fondly remembers running to help his grandad with the pump. Dad says when they closed the store, Morgan gifted the pump to Dr. Castleberry (of the Castleberry Drug Store in Forsyth) as a nostalgic memento (he was real young at the time, and says it stands out as a memory because he would have liked to have it, ha ha). The timing is a little off though — my dad was born in 1960 and the store supposedly closed during the Depression according to my family, but 1955 according to Morgan in the newspaper article… still digging into family history and trying to piece it all together.