Buchanan Main Street

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Title: Buchanan Main Street
Description: A collection of photographs and postcards showing Main Street in Buchanan over the years.

Image 1 - Main Street with the Mick and Mack, Drug store, Texaco station, and Buchanan Restaurant, circa 1930s.
Image 2 - Buchanan fourth of July Parade, around 1950s.
Image 3 - Color Postcard reads, "View from Main Street Looking North, Buchanan, Va., Purgatory Mountain in distance."
Image 4 - Black and white photogrpah of Main street with the columns of the Bank of Buchanan (now Bank of Botetourt) on the left, and the Star Theatre (now Buchanan Theater) on the right beside the Dodge Dealership.
Image 5 - Harry Fulwiler in front of his Esso store in 1911. This store stood at the corner of Bridge Street and Water Street where the Water Street Apartments stand today. Mr. Fulwiler played a major role in having the Buchanan Swinging Bridge constructed when Main Street was realigned.
Image 6 - A black and white photograph of a photographer in foreground in front of parade crowd. The drugstore in the background is now the Buchanan Branch Library.
Image 7 - Black and white photograph circa 1930s of Barley's Drug Store, Buchanan National Bank, and Hyde House.
Image 8 - Black and white photograph of the interior of Buchanan National Bank building (now Fireside Books).
Image 9 - Black and white photograph of construction on Main Street.
Image 10 - A black and white postcard of Main Street, Buchanan.
Format: image/jpeg
Subject: Town of Buchanan; Buchanan
Type: Image
Coverage: Buchanan, Botetourt County
Provenance: Provided to Botetourt County Libraries by Harry Gleason and Mike Lee.