In a message dated 6/8/2007 12:02:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, molawren-request@rootsweb.com writes: Today's Topics: 1. Re: Mt. Vernon Hotel (Lawrence County Historical Society) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:51:06 -0600 From: "Lawrence County Historical Society" <lchs@mo-net.com> Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Mt. Vernon Hotel To: <molawren@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000601c7a924$0c1ef260$19a9f3cf@LCHS> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Patricia, Short answer, no. But.... Are you talking about the Village Square Colonial Apartments, on the northwest corner of the square? Or the Hotel Mt. Vernon which once sat on the north side of the square where the tire store is now? The first was built in the early-mid 1880's. Bits about it can found in the local newspapers. The latter was built in 1889 and destroyed by fire in 1909. There is rather more about it in the newspapers. There was a restaurant with the hotel. some space was used by other businesses. Pool hall, too! It was managed by different parties almost yearly and was probably never much of a money maker for the group of original investors. We have a photo of it under construction and another of the rear around 1900. A third shows a portion of the roof in the winter of 1889-90. This one shows all of downtown Mt. Vernon shot from the roof of the Presbyterian Church, looking to the north, up Main Street. Re Deb Rowe's question on the Haley House. I don't know if George Haley had anything to do with the hotel on the northwest corner of the square. I do know he had a hotel on South Hickory Street as far back as 1867. It was call the "Haley House." In an ad in the Spring River Fountain it is located as "House on Cassville Street, Geo. Haley, Prop." I believe Cassville Street is the modern Hickory Street. There is precedence for this. Center Street was once called Springfield Street. I think, way back when, a main street leading away from the center of a town was often named for the next large town/county seat it encountered. Just pointing the way. The route wasn't a straight shot. There is a Mt. Vernon Street in Springfield and one in Stotts City, too. What is your interest? Let me know if yu want more specifics. Gary Daughtrey LCHS 1st VP ----- Original Message ----- From: <Roulx@aol.com> To: <molawren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:54 PM Subject: [MOLAWREN] Mt. Vernon Hotel > Does anyone have a fairly complete history of the Mt. Vernon > Hotel....various owners and dates, restaurant(??) etc.? > > Patricia > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.7/830 - Release Date: 6/3/2007 > 12:47 PM > > ------------------------------ To contact the MOLAWREN list administrator, send an email to MOLAWREN-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the MOLAWREN mailing list, send an email to MOLAWREN@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of MOLAWREN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 106 Gary, thank you so much for your reply. Now I am uncertain....didn't realize there were two, and always thought it was the one on the corner. However, I also thought there was a restaurant, and that my great grandmother was involved with that along with great grandfather, so maybe it was the second one. I am talking about Daniel James Hunt and his wife Amanda Clementine Trower Hunt, parents of my grandfather Alonzo Hunt. I can't put my hands on it at the moment but have a newspaper clipping reporting that "hotel man D.J. Hunt returned from a visit with......" Family stories about Amanda and her cooking in the past. It is all very sketchy, and I don't know if I can hope to find any better information. If there is anything else about Daniel and Amanda and the hotel, I would really like to have it. Not sure if I met you when I visited a LCHS meeting several years ago or not. There were a lot of people there, and I was impressed with the materials available, both there and at the McCanse Library. I was born and raised to the age of about 11 in Mt. Vernon. In recent years, I discovered that Martha Pennington Castleman, a 1st to 4th grade classmate and friend, lives just a few miles from me and we have visited since. We are in Ca. near San Francisco. She recently attended the high school reunion. Thank you again for the information, and anything else you can offer is most welcome. Patricia Hunt Rouleau ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.