The Journal-Record - Bicentennial Edition Thursday, July 1, 1976 Section A, Page 2 WINFIELD HAS HAD IT'S SHARE OF FIRES THROUGHOUT HISTORY Winfield has had its share of fires. One of the first and worse ones occurred before there was any fire equipment in town. This one was in April 1922 and was one(sic) the west side of the street running north and south. It burned everything from the Grayson HILL Store on south of the old Winfield State Bank. Men, women and children fought this fire with buckets of water from the nearby wells. They fought desperately to keep the fire from spreading to the east side of the street. An earlier fire in December 1916 was the burning of a store where SHERMAN's Store is located. Earlier the MUSGROVE Hotel burned; the PORTER Hotel burned while a Mr. GRIFFIN operated it; the Baptist, Church of Christ and Methodist churches each have had fires. Dr. HOLLIS' buildings east of W. H. ROBERT's Store and the old post office burned November 8, 1952. This was an awful fire; but several years previous to this the city purchased a fire truck. But even with the truck, neighboring stations from Guin, Hamilton, Sulligent, Fayette and Carbon Hill aided in the fire from midnight until almost daylight. Other fires have occurred since this time. ODEN SHIREY Drug Company burned a few years back, as did the old VICKERY Trading Post Building, which now is occupied by Hi-Lo Dollar Store. Another terrible fire, destroyed McDONALDs Big Star only a couple of years back. Probably the most recent fire was only about two months ago when the G and G Discount Store, next to Raymond SPANN's 5 and 10, burned destroying the entire contents of the store.