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  • Collection: Northport - People and Places

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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.

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Northport's Main Avenue under water.

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To the far right: Mr. Lucian Strong.
To the extreme right: Christian Store.
In the center of the street: Mr. Wells and Mr. Seales.

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School picture for Grades 7 and 8 in the City of Northport.

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School picture for Grades 5 and 6 in the City of Northport for 1907.

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Main Avenue in Northport looking north

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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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Addie Shirley Darden (1872-1965), Beulah Shirley (1870-1951), and Mattie Shirley Harper (1875-1960) were the daughters of Sarah Angeline and Joseph Shirley. The late Northport historian Marvin Harper was the son of Mattie Shirley Harper, one of her…

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G.W. Christian and Company on the northwest corner at Fifth Street and Main Avenue in Northport . Mr. Tom Christian is in the buggy. The building later housed the Spiller Furniture Company and now houses a shop called Gracefully Done.

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This photo shows the City Café and Maxwell Tire and Oil Company on Main Avenue in Northport during the 1951 flood.
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