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Where was this lady posing in old Searcy Arkansas? I think here.....

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

Corinne Hart posing

This picture is showing our queen of Searcy, Corrine Hart, who grew up in Searcy and helped Searcy grow up.  She lived to be over 100.  She is Anita Fuller's mother and Anita supplied this photo.

Where is she posing?  I think it is the statue that is on the Court Square.  I went there today and took a picture of Searcy as it is today.  I got the statue seat, the lamp and possibly the three windowed building in the background.

Searcy AR today

 

I'll wait for my Searcy experts to tell me whether I'm right or not.  This picture shows the South side of the Court Square. 

The lamp post certainly looks similar. 

It's great to go in and explore the history of Searcy in White County Arkansas. 

I can almost see Corrine sitting on this pedestal and flinging her purse on the pedestal also.

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Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Anita, that's an interesting thought that the direction is North looking in the direction of the jail and the buildings are similar.

Searcy Jail

You can see the jail has a peaked facade. Also you would see the inscription on the Confederate Solider statue if the direction was looking North. More on the statue:

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. On the following day, a statue of a Confederate soldier was erected on the White County Courthouse square, and speakers entreated the young men to give their services to the cause as their Confederate forefathers had done more than a half century earlier. While the effects of this war on the people of White County were small compared to World War II, there were at least twenty-five soldiers from White County who gave their lives in this war.

 This monument is one of three in Arkansas that does not bear the mark of a Confederate patriotic organization. Although it was constructed through public subscription, its genesis was tied to the patriotic organizations nonetheless because  it was built in honor of the state's Confederate veterans, who held their 1917 state reunion in Searcy's Spring Park. Sixty-one surviving veterans marched in the parade.

Barbara, you got the direction just right.


Don

Oct 07, 2009 03:08 AM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller

O.K.   I accept defeat.....and I actually conceeded before I read Don's commets.  When Bob saw the picture and what I was calling the jail, he nearly hooted me out of the house.  He knows directions and he said there is NO WAY that jail was where I thought it was.   Now that I see the actual jail, I can see that it is NOT the same building.  Good eye, Barbara....I would  never have figured out  it was that building.  Whew!  I think I have thought that was the "jailhouse" in that picture for YEARS.

Anita Fuller

Oct 07, 2009 03:28 AM
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Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Dear Godmother,

In my heart only you are the queen of Searcy.. I so appreciate your protective wing as I am ruthlessly attacked by "no-nothings" like Mr Charles, Mr James and Mrs Kate.

Oct 07, 2009 03:48 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Bob, I'm not absolutely certain about this.  Compare the buildings carefully and there are differences.  There was white above the windows.  There was a ledge at the top.  Makes me wonder.

Anita, see my comment above.  I am not claiming victory.  I could have tried other angles but it was raining yesterday when I did it!

Don, I love that old jail building.  But I don't know where it was.  Remind me again where it actually stood.  Thanks for the history.  I needed that and was too busy to dig it up.

Anita again.  Look at them again.  I can be wrong.

 

Oct 07, 2009 08:06 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Godson Nutsy,

You just warm this old heart with your kind words.  I do think that most people don't believe a word of the insults thrown your way by the nasty team of C and K and J.  We'll eventually wear them down as they see all your admirable traits.

Godmoma Barbara

Oct 07, 2009 08:09 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Safeway Store

Could this one with three windows be it?

Oct 07, 2009 08:17 AM
Anonymous
SHS 51

Yep. I was thinking it was the old Polk Piano store, but have to agree with your latest conclusion.

The original picture is looking East, not south west,  and shows three of the four windows of the law building on the corner of Arch and Spring. It also has the "S" from the Safeway sign. The surface marks on the granite base in your color picture do not compare with the cuts shown on the original picture.

So is that the Security Bank or White County Motors  on the other side of Corrine?

Bob C

Oct 07, 2009 08:47 AM
#9
Anonymous
Anita Fuller

The jail was 413 N. Spruce, phone number 3.   Now Don, or somebody, get us a Google map so we can put it all in perspective.

Thanks to all who are trying.

Anita Fuller

Oct 07, 2009 10:02 AM
#10
Kate Kate
San Diego, CA

Barbara, this is like a mystery novel. You are joined by good friends in Searcy. Kate, Your NV friend

Oct 07, 2009 10:21 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Bob, loan me your magnifying glass!  Where is the S for Safeway?  And where is the 4th window of the law building? 

Okay, Anita, so it was 413 N  Spruce.....what is that beside?  In today's world?  This is as "hard as Korean algebra" as my husband would express.  But we're gonna get there.

Kate, it is like a mystery novel.  These Searcy friends are so much fun!  And except for being a Nutsy enemy, you're a great friend too!

Oct 07, 2009 10:42 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Bob!!  Now I see it.  We're so slow.  The pedestal covered up the 4th window and we didn't even notice!!  Problem solved!!!  And you get an A+++.

Oct 07, 2009 10:44 AM
Anonymous
Harold Gene Sullivan

The old jail was located on the west side of Spruce just 1/2 block north of Race.  Spruce is the north/south street on the west side of the courthouse.  The White County Office Building is on the site now.

Oct 07, 2009 10:52 AM
#14
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Wait a minute. Are some of you in a parallel universe? Spruce is on the other side of the court house from the statue.

N. Spruce

This Google view is looking North up Spruce. One couldn't see Spruce from the statue. The court house would block the view.

Looking North up Spring would give you this view.

View North

Anita, you mom was sitting on the back side of the statue toward the court house.The streets have probably been renumbered to accomodate the new buildings.

The White County Office Building is about where the jail would have been midway up  N. Spruce toward Vine.

White County Office Building

Don

Oct 07, 2009 11:07 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Harold Gene, duke it out with the pros!!

Don, it's hard to duke-it-out with you because you always bring in this excellent evidence with photos!!  Now I see where the jail would have been and I see that it wouldn't have been visible from Corrine's perch.  You guys are great!!

Oct 07, 2009 11:18 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

OOOPS!  And girls.......

Oct 07, 2009 11:19 AM
Anonymous
Harold Gene Sullivan

I recall the jail being between Race and Vine where the White County Office Building is now, not north of Vine where the Detention Center now is.  I think the picture we had several months ago taken by Paula from the top of the old high school confirms my location.  Come on you people, chirp in on this.  This is really important, we wouldn't want to misplace the old jail by 100 feet.

Oct 07, 2009 03:50 PM
#18
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Harold Gene, I'm innocent.  I wasn't here then but I'll be the referee.  That old jail building was so beautiful.  I wish they hadn't torn it down.

Oct 08, 2009 12:19 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

You rock Harold. I think your evidence of using Paula's pic from the high school roof is indisputable.

View From High Schoo

That's the jail center left. I remember seeing it when I walked to school up Vine when I lived at 506 N. Main St. I thought it was closer to Vine but it probably was mid way up Spruce. See my updated pic of the location above (+/- 25 feet)

I have been wanting to mention a place on Spruce for some time and now I can. On Race st. at about Spruce there was a barber shop where I got 25 cent haircuts. It was B. B. Benton's Busy Bee Barber Shop.

Don

 

 

Oct 08, 2009 01:39 AM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller

All I remember about the jail is driving by with a gang of girls in the car, honking the horn, and the "prisoneers" standing at the jail windows, holding on to the bars and looking out the windows....then waving at us girls.  We didn't use this term then but now we would have said, "Cool".....

Anita Fuller

Oct 08, 2009 01:51 AM
#21
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, you were giving those prisoners a thrill, weren't you.

Don, thanks for reposting that picture.  I've always had trouble recognizing anything in it, however!

Oct 10, 2009 11:07 AM
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