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Historic building on Burkesville Street burning to the ground

By Linda Waggener

A historic Adair County building burned overnight and is still smoldering at 409 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY. The building had been a site of local businesses for many years - the Meadow Hill Inn having been one very popular one, then Walker Florist. It was occupied in recent years by Sign America.

The Adair County Fire Department was called out about 11:30pmCT and 17 men fought the blazing building for four and a half hours.



Chief Mike Glasgow said they felt it was under control as much as possible around 3:30amCT and they left it to burn itself out - he felt it would probably continue to smolder all day. He said he had not ordered any fire fighters inside the burning building on arrival because of the known dangers to their safety.

He has no idea of the cause of the fire, it will remain under investigation. He did feel if the Fire Department had been called even ten minutes earlier they might have been able to save the building.

More details will be provided as received.


This story was posted on 2018-10-23 10:10:15
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Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY building fire dying down



2018-10-23 - 409 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo from Will White, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
The Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY Sign America building was completely destroyed in an overnight fire. Passersby on their way to work Tuesday morning, October 23, 2018 were met with smoldering ruins. More information will be posted as it is received from the Adair County Fire Department.

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Burkesville Street fire burning before daylight



2018-10-23 - 409 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Cynthia A. Meyer.
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The Columbia building that burned yesterday is being fondly remembered for its popular restaurant, Meadow Hill Inn. In the background of this picture is the home of Maxine and the late Bill Walker who owned Meadow Hill Inn and Walker Florist there. Both Ralph Waggener and Larry Smith remind us of features in the columbiamagazine.com archives of the memorable business. Click here to revisit an amazing story about Meadow Hill Inn by the writer JIM, with photos.

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