Fire of 1913
Fire of 1913. The summer of 1913 Taylorsville experienced disaster.
About dusk a fire broke out in Reynolds Blacksmith Shop, the flames spread toward the Square
through I.W. BEAUCHAMP'S lumber yards to Main Street through Felix GREENWELL'S grocery
store east on Main continuing through Allen's Hotel almost to the Bloomfield Road. The
next
morning an entirely unrelated fire broke out on the north side of Main Street when a bakery
coal
oil stove exploded. Flames spread west and burned a livery stable, the present location of
Valley Theater, and east all the way to the Square. The old red brick Court House was
completely
burned. There was no fire department or water system and the only means of fire fighting was
with buckets of water. All the records at the Court House were saved. The present Court House
was built by I. W. BEAUCHAMP soon thereafter.
Later that year the municipal water system was installed which consisted
of a pumping station, an open pond reservoir on the hill, and a network of pipe which
reached
only to the fire hydrant at the intersection.
Taken from Spencer County History by Mary Francis Brown
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