This building, at the edge of Elko, has always been a mystery to me. It obviously serves a storage purpose today, but the arrangement of the doors suggest it was originally a warehouse of some kind. It’s not near the railroad track, but some have suggested they thought it was a depot. I hope to update soon.
This may have been a commissary, office building, or precinct house. It’s located next door to the Davis Store and old Elko post office.
Shavius Alford writes: As much as I know from my grandmother and others, it was owned by a man named Paul Davis. I went to this store as a child when it still had a gas pump and post office; and later it was reopened but finally closed. Mike Stokes adds: ...it served as the post office until the early 1990’s when the new post office was built across Elko Road.
Elko Baptist was organized in 1890. I believe the church building is contemporary to that date but I haven’t been able to locate a history.
This church grew from the congregation of nearby Hickory Grove Methodist, and is thought to have been organized in 1892. This structure was built around 1910-11 after the first was struck by lightning.