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…
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…
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.