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Old Photo: WPA days, or later, Columbia, Adair Co., KY PHOTO from historian Larry Smith's Collection shows South High Street and West Fortune Street neighborhood, site of long-closed cave passage. By Ed Waggener Some reader and listener help is welcome on the photo from what appears to be WPA days of the 1930s or in the early 1940's South High and West Fortune Streets area of Columbia, sent to ColumbiaMagazine.com by Larry Smith, South Central Kentucky Historian and WHVE 92.7 FM The WAVE news anchor. The very center of the photo would be the intersection of High and Greensburg Streets, at the Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home. The intersection between the two houses on the right would be South High Street and West Fortune Street. The age of the photo would appear to be 1930's or after. In the photo, there is curb work on the left, by the gravel, which would be in front of the present Wanda Hill Home. Whether that work is part of the 1930's Works Progress Administration (WPA) High Street Project or not, or somewhat later, needs further research. The first home on the left in the photo was remodelled by Elmer and Minnie Rubarts in the 1950's and 1960's and has a different appearance today. Mrs. Rubarts also later owned the second house on the right, maintaining it as a rental. "My father always told me a person ought to have at least seven rental properties, she said. And mentioned an interesting fact about the grounds. "There used to be an entrance to a cave in the back yard which went under the Square and came out on the little road behind the Dr. Ol Miller place." She did not say when, or why or how, the mouthes of the cave were shut. The Miller property is now known as the Trabue Russell and the little road, long closed, went behind the apartment complex. Reader and listener comment is welcome. Call Larry Smith at (270) 384-3979. Or comment on ColumbiaMagazine.com using the Contact/Submit button or call Ed Waggener at (270) 250-2730. This story was posted on 2007-12-29 04:32:35
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