Baker County State Bank, T.M. Dorman. Bank opened Feb 1904.
McClenny Hotel
McClenny Hotel ca 1905
south side - facing railroad, prop. Elizabeth Barber on porch
Built by C.B. McClenny in 1881
Dr. E.B. Brown, ? , Carl McClenny, Edward McClenny, John McClenny, ? , Harold Turner & W.J. Thompson - early 1900's
This is an alley, now no longer there, between College and 4th Streets in Macclenny, looking north. At the far left is the Georgia
Williams Wolfe house (burned after this photo made and rebuilt). 2 story house beyond the Wolfe house is the Bob Rogers house
(also his headquarters for a while for his horse and buggy taxi service) and is still standing and in good repair. Beyond the Rogers
house is the Luther Williams house (later burned and not rebuilt). All houses on the right of the photo are gone. If they were still
standing, 4th Street would be just beyond them.
The M.T. Howell store as it was around 1901. On the left is Mr. Howell
who came to Baker County from Mount Olive, NC and is reputed to have brought the first sawmill
into the county. Around 1894 he bought the Darby-Savage House (known later as the "Hardware Brown House"
and opened this store selling general merchandise. Note the bedstead in the left window.
The young man in the center, framed in the doorway, is the late Duncan Rhoden, a junior clerk.
The white-shirted gentleman at the right was also a clerk, the hard drinking and buggy-for-hire,
Bob Rogers. Mr. Howell with his son, Thad L., later founded the Bon-Howell Lumber Company in Jacksonville in 1912.
First Brick Building in Macclenny, The Thompson Store, built in 1903 by John O. Thompson
Mrs. Thompson's millinary shop and the famil apartment were upstairs. The building at the right was the
Frank Wells, Sr. hardware store.
Lynn Barnes - Russie Thrift Garage
Charlie Drigger by Truck, Russie Thrift & Lynn Barnes by his car
Located on U.S. 90 between 5th & 6th Street
Downtown Macclenny before Dec. 1937 fire
Downtown Macclenny before Dec. 1937 fire
Downtown Macclenny before Dec. 1937 fire
Downtown Macclenny Dec. 1937 fire
Downtown Macclenny after Dec. 1937 fire
Hotel Annie & Powers Sundry reopened in 1938
College Street looking south
Turn of the century, St. James Academy in distance
Fifth Street looking north
B&P, Gothe Buildings, Corner of Citizens State Bank, Howell Store, Unkn, Old Railroad Depot out of sight to right.
South Fifth Street looking north-If you had been standing with the photographer when he shot this Kodak around 1909, you would have been in the middle of the
street between the present Woman's Club Home and Myra Fraser's place of business.
The square-fa�ade unpainted building on the right was the home, at various times,
of Milton's store, Howell's store, and Clayton's store, and was the county's first
known telephone office (operated by Clayton). The new construction on the left
would become the home of the Baker County Press about twenty years later.
Fifth Street looking north
Baker County State Bank, George Garrett Home, J.D. Merritt Home, Irwin Rhoden Home, Methodist Church hidden
by trees.
Baker County Standard
Baker County Standard - Pearl Garrett Barber is person in center
Baker County Standard & ?
Baker County State Bank John William Barber on left. Pat Goodbread on right
Baker County State Bank $100 Share
Belonged to Charles C. Corbett, dated June ?, 1907
Baker County Sales Company 1924
Corner of Macclenny Ave. & College St. Owned by James Robert Rowe who sold it to Dunk Dinkins and became Dinkins Motor Company
The Beautiful St. Mary's River
EdRay Theatre 1949
1950s Downtown Macclenny Paul's Rexall Drug Store (formally the Dr. E. W. Crockett Drug Store) & the EdRay Theatre
Powers Drug Store
Dr. Brown's Drug Store with Arthur Rowe
Glen St. Mary Post Mistress, Mary Chesser Hurst-Rhoden, retires 6/30/1972
d/o Wiley Thomas "Snide" Chesser & Maggie Johnson
w/o (1) James Massey Hurst (2) Carl Rhoden
St. Mary's River 1981 (dlb)
S.R. 228 north of U.S. 90 in Macclenny
remember the deep rutted, sandy "Georgia Road"?
Agricultural exhibition at first Florida State Fair
Pine Top
Pine Top
Macclenny ca 1940, looking west
Macclenny, looking east (Crockett Drug Store mobile billboard)
Taylor Store 1975
Franklin General Store, Glen St. Mary. Earl Franklin, Prop.
Office Building
Lady in the center looking toward the camera is Winono Godwin Barber.
To her left and in the rear is Pearl Garrett Barber. Mrs. Ida Wiggins Knabb & Miss Nettie Rowe are also in the picture.
The office bldg was the Baker County Press, and it is the same as the one used today.
Moniac, GA c1898/9 - Ox cart, men & mules loading log train for the sawmill
Dr. John Watson's Office with Patrick & Amelia Barnes ca 1957
Osceola National Forest Lodge built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the WPA/Depression days.
It could be rented from the Forest Svc, but almost always had a
very long waiting list. The Macclenny-Glen High School used the area
for pre-school football training in the late 1940's and the boys were
bedded down in the lodge while they were there. It was a beautiful and
grand building. Such a shame it was razed.
