Centerville Sights

Luckily we were in Centerville on Friday, so we were able to take this tour.
We were the only customers so we had a two-hour private tour for $5 each.
What a bargain!

The driver was very knowledgeable about all things Centerville - history, residents, business - you name it, he knew it.

This is the Appanoose County Courthouse on the Square. They say it's the World's largest town square. I don't know if that's true but it certainly is an impressive piece of traffic engineering. You drive clockwise if you're on the inside lane and counter-clockwise in the outside lane; there are four rows of parking: one by the courthouse sidewalk, one by the outer sidewalk and two between the lanes. Sounds complicated, but it works.








Most towns in rural America have one of these water towers with the town name on it.










This abandoned building was once the Ashby Bakery, owned by relatives of the Husband.
It is in an area of Centerville know as the levee (I hope I'm spelling that right!) I always thought a levee was something built along a river to keep the flood waters from the town. There's no river near this area so I'm not sure what's going on here.








This was the Centerville train station when the Husband was a kid. It's also in the levee area and is now the VFW building.








Many years ago this building was a button factory. According to the husband, they brought in shells from the Mississippi River to make mother-of-pearl buttons.