James W. Anders stands by a pot-bellied stove in Anders Hardware in Northport. Anders was mayor of Northport from 1938 to 1956. He was born on October 21, 1887 and died at age 74 on February 10, 1962, after a long illness.
Marvin Harper is the boy standing on this pile of lumber on Compress Street ( now 30th Avenue) in Northport. The third child seated is Mattie Harper Phillips, the fourth is Ewel Harper and the sixth is Elizabeth Powell.
The Christian and Daniel Store (formerly Shirley and Christian) was a general merchandise store located at Fifth Street and Main Avenue in Northport. The store was built by James Shirley.
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…