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-
- Where
Was High Street ?
-
- If
you haven't been confused lately, here's your chance!
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- (The
maps used for examples for this discussion are
- just
a part of those available in the Maps section.)
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- Shelby
1852 Addition Plat
- (First map - related
mention of High Street)
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- This shows High
Street being east of the Broadway intersection.
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-
- Shelby
in 1856
-
- No
mention of High Street. Main Street extends
- eastward
from the Broadway intersection.
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- Shelby
in 1873
-
- High
Street is here again shown as an eastern
- extension
of Main Street.High
- (But
notice that East Main St. is on the West Side of town.)
-
- Confused
Yet?
-
- This
latter glitch was obviously a mistake, but the
- matter
of the location of High Street can't be
- attributed
to a one time mistake .
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-
-
- The
advertisements that are shown on the previous
- Shelby's
Early Merchants page give some more
- confusing
clues.
-
- In
the first ad, the location is given as:
- High
Street - Opposite Wilson's Hall.
- Only
if Wilson's Hall location can be determined
- will
this be of any use, but The "Saiger's Hotel" ad:
- "Corner
of High and Broadway" is pretty definite.
-
- So
is the next "Mickey House" ad:
- "Corner
of High and Gamble".
-
- This
surely suggests that High Street extended
- as
far west as Gamble Street.
-
- The
E. Stevenson Barber & Hairdresser ad:
- "High
Street 1st door below Wilson's Store"
- still
requires knowledge of the location of
- Wilson's
Store.
-
- Coltman's
Hall is another location problem. It
- could
have been in the Saiger's (or Leyman) Hotel
- at
the southwest corner of the east side square.
-
- The
next ad for Mrs. M. Madden's Photo Shop
- indicates
it is located on High St. She at one
- time
had a shop in the area where the Brickley
- Hotel
is now located. However, the shop locations
- of
many of these business people changed rapidly.
- Some
have said "whenever their rent was due."
-
- The
Hood and Swartz Ad:
- "One
door north of Mickey House on Gamble St."
- confirms
the location of Mickey House being at
- the
Gamble Street location.
-
- Much
further down the list is the ad of
- Wm.
Cummings & Anderson:
- "Dry
Goods
- High
and Gamble"
- This
also confirms High extending to Gamble.
-
- Then
there is Samuel Sutter's ad:
- "Cabinet
Furniture
- High
Street (near the bridge)"
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-
- Of
the total advertisements chosen to represent
- a
cross section of those run during 1862, 16
- of
them made reference to High Street, while
- only
1 to Main Street. This coupled with the
- fact
that High Street was, on many occasions,
- used
as a description of locations from Gamble
- to
Broadway, it would seem that during this
- period
of time, High Street must have largely
- replaced
the name of Main Street.
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- Just
as strangely, by the time the 1873 atlas
- was
printed, High Street was shown extending
- east
of Broadway, but in the accompanying
- pictures
of some of the buildings in Shelby,
- Main
Street was used in their description and
- the
name High Street was never used.
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-
- In
addition, a copy of an 1859 issue of the Shelby
- Pioneer
Newspaper yields ads in which Main
- Street
is used at least 10 times to describe business
- locations
and the name High Street is never
- mentioned.
-
- So
it seems that the High Street phenomenon
- began
in the early 1860s and in 10 years had
- largely
died out. When in fashion it probably
- was
used along the entire length of Main Street.
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