This photo was originally brought to the newspaper by Orville Kammeyer. Waverly Newspaper. The Fortner Hotel was the point at which the buses picked up and dropped off train passengers. Broadie's drug store, built in 1900, is at the right. "Get it at Broadie's" was a long familiar slogan in Waverly. Fr. L.C. Kern moved into the Broadie building January 1901. Ref's Restaraunt Bakery, opened late 1908 and sold early 1910.
Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx Accession No. 91N0333.
Picture was taken between 1883 (Fortner hotel built) and 1910 (Trolley Tracks not installed yet) were installed in 1910- NM
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This photo was originally brought to the newspaper by Orville Kammeyer. Waverly Newspaper. The Fortner Hotel was the point at which the buses picked up and dropped off train passengers. Broadie's drug store, built in 1900, is at the right. "Get it at Broadie's" was a long familiar slogan in Waverly. Fr. L.C. Kern moved into the Broadie building January 1901. Ref's Restaraunt Bakery, opened late 1908 and sold early 1910.
Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx Accession No. 91N0333.
Picture was taken between 1883 (Fortner hotel built) and 1910 (Trolley Tracks not installed yet) were installed in 1910- NM