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A Look Back At Old Edmonton: The Great Fire of 1920 By Geniece Marcum Story courtesy Senior Quest Magazine, Edmonton, KY Following is a letter, sent to me by Martha Pedigo Coleman, a native of Edmonton, now living in Eugene, Oregon. The letter was written by Martha's mother, Mrs Mollie Pedigo to Martha's grandmother, Mrs Mollie Haire, who was out of the area at the time. The letter is dated April 25, 1920, and in it Mrs Pedigo describes a fire of the previous night which almost destroyed the town of Edmonton. Her letter gives insight as to what type of businesses made up the town at that time. The letter follows: Edmonton, Ky Location Of Buildings Destroyed In The Fire Of 1920.During earlier years, the small town of Edmonton certainly suffered it's share of fires which long ago destroyed most all of the origional buildings. Mrs Pedigo tells us that the devastating fire of 1920 began in the Livery Stable, located where Akins Aluminum and Carpet buisness now stands. No one ever seemed to know just exactly how this fire got started. Directly across the street from the burning Livery Stable a frame building which contained the first Presbyterian Church, caught fire and burned, along witha house and garage next door to the church which belonged to Underwood Shirley. The Presbyterian Church was later replaced with a brick building which still stands today. With the passing of it's members though, this building was sold and now serves, I believe, as the Assembly Of God Church. The old *Pedigo hotel which was destroyed in the fire, stood on the corner where the offices of County Atty. Barry Gilley are today. At an angle across the street from the hotel was a dry goods store belonging to Will Wilson,(father of the late merchant, Bill Wilson). Behind it stood Wills's undertaking building and his dwelling house. All three buildings were destroyed by the blaze according to Mrs. Pedigo's letter. In place of the dry goods store now stands the brick building which once held the store of Phillip Kopel, but today houses Wall Works. If you're curious, as I was, about the identity of folks mentioned only by their first names by the writer, we learned that "Uncle Bob", whose house was spared from the flames, was Uncle Bob Perkins. "Willis" who helped to save Uncle Bob's house by staying on the roof and pouring water over it, was Willis Pedigo, builder of the Edmonton Church Of Christ, next door to Akins' Aluminum. "Merida" who ordered the potatoes for spring planting was Merida Pedigo, husband of Mollie Pedigo, father of Martha Pedigo Coleman, and Willis. Our thanks to Martha for sharing this interesting bit of local history with us. We hope to hear more about old Edmonton from her in future issues of Senior Quest! and ColumbiaMagazine.com! *The Old Pedigo Hotel at Edmonton was immortalized with a few paragraphs in one of food writer John Edgerton's books, where he mentioned a specialty of the Pedigo hotel dining room. The hotel would stack several layers, with several flavors of cream pies, and guests would be served a tall sliver of pie, giving them each a flavor of all the cream pies flavors cooked that day. -EW This story was posted on 2008-02-07 10:59:40
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