Jay Co. History
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Written by Jane Spencer
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Sunday, 08 July 2007 |
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 WEILERS…
The story of the development of the Anchor Building in Portland, Indiana, from our humble beginnings in the 1830’s.
The citizens of Jay County would not have a 1926 two-story, cement and steel, art deco building to restore in 2006 if there had not been many industrious endeavors of those who have gone before. The large department store business that was to occupy the building, erected in 1926 on the south-east corner of Main and Meridian Streets, can trace its existence to the very beginning of Jay County and Portland. Jay County was established by the Indiana Legislature in January of 1836. The site of the county seat was selected in June of that year, and the first session of the Board of County Commissioners was held on November 8, 1836. Robert Huey erected the first Court House, a log structure on the northwest corner of Main and Meridian Streets, in May of 1837 and obtained a license to open the first store in Portland by September of the same year. |
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Written by Jane Spencer
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
 MY MYSTERYof28 YEARSis SOLVED!!!
WHAT IS THE
STORY BEHIND
THIS PICTURE?
While going through a box of old pictures some twenty-eight years ago, your Jay County Historian came across the above photo. The box was in an old storeroom above the garage at the Williamson & Spencer Funeral Home. My husband’s grandfather, Nelson R. Williamson, had become a partner in the funeral home in 1906. Therefore, the subject of the picture was not unusual to be found where it was. However, there was no writing on the back of the photo to tell me anything about it. Grandpa Williamson had passed on by this time, and no one else in the firm could tell me anything about the origin of the photo. |
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Jay Co. History 
