Carole Mallett Lechner writes: This house belonged to Reuben Marshall Jordan, my great grandfather. My mother, Mary Eunice Jordan Mallett, was born here. It has lost all of the porch that wrapped around it and the fence also. It was originally painted green and had lots of pretty flowers around it.
This monument pays tribute to Philip Edward Boyd (1839-1906). It notes that he spent thirty-three years (1873-1906) devoted to Leary. Boyd was a Confederate veteran. Carole Mallett Lechner notes that it was originally located in the middle of Main Street, at Hotel Street, but was moved because it kept being struck by cars.
The building with the Harpe Grocery sign was originally a pharmacy. Milton Kidd writes that in the 1940s, this was Dr. Bridges’s pharmacy. Carole Mallett Lechner recalls a later pharmacist working there, Charles A. Roberts.
Bermuda is named for the historic plantation that surrounds the settlement. This vernacular Greek Revival commissary or farm office served the community.