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  • Collection: Northport - People and Places

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Rusty, the Big Red Dog is lifted into place on top of Stephens Studio and Gallery on Main Avenue in Northport, Alabama.

The sculpture was created in 1983 by Larry Godwin, who worked with his brothers in his father's feed store in Dothan, Alabama.…

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The Orange Crush Bottling Company was located on 10th Street in Northport.

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James Shirley built this building on the south west corner of Main Avenue and 5th Street in Northport.

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Simpson's Store and Bell Drug Company located in the old Christian Brothers store at the corner of Fifth Street and Main Avenue in Northport.

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The Spencer and Evans Store was located at 412 Main Avenue in Northport. (L to R) Ford Spencer, John Powell Williams, Archie Evans and Kenneth Evans.

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The Maxwell-Hamner House, built in 1885, is Victorian in style. The foundation is block pillars and the house is constructed of wood with asphalt and shingles used in the roof. The home is rectangular in shape with Victorian mil work details.…

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This single-story frame house was built by John B. Maxwell, circa 1900.

Past Horizons, p. 58.

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James Shirley (1809-1866), an early Northport pioneer settler from South Carolina, built the house of brick about 1840. Shirley also built the first brick commercial buildings in Northport in 1850, after a fire burned the entire district. One of the…

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James Shirley (1809-1866), an early Northport pioneer settler from South Carolina, built the house of brick about 1840. Shirley also built the first brick commercial buildings in Northport in 1850, after a fire burned the entire district. One of the…

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After he was quite elderly, William Rufus Dodson, a decendant of the surveyor Dodson who first surveyed Northport in the 1820s, built this home about 1890. The property was deeded to Lewis Williamson upon Mr. Dodson's death. Robert G. Mitchell was…
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