This is an Emporia Main Street cache.
Include are selections from notes form V.A. Basgall Emporia City Planner, the Lyon County Historical Archives and Emporia Main Street Historical District Property Information.
The location is a high muggel area, be cautious.
The cache is located outside.
-Tweezers may be requited-
Cache is located with property owner’s permission.
This block remained minimally developed until the early twentieth century. In 1884, there was a roller skating rink on the north end, the E. F. Sprague Planing Mill and Steam Carpentry Shop on the south end, and a second-hand store in the middle. The roller skating rink was converted to the "Great Western Horse and Mule Market" between 1888 and 1893. It was later converted to a livery stable, a use it maintained until the years between 1911 and 1923. Although the demolition of the planing mill between 1884 and 1888 opened the block up for commercial development, it did not take its current form until the 1920s. This building was constructed between 1923 and 1929. Before then, there were three small one-story buildings on this parcel
The location has been home for an assortment of businesses over the years;
1926-1928 D.I. Wright auto supply
1930 Wright Motor Supply Company
1932 Vacant
1938-1941 Emporia Co-operative Association Grocers
1946 Webb Equipment Company
1949-1955 Koch Appliance Company
1957 Vacant
1958-1965 Seacat’s Heating and Air Conditioning
1966-1976 Seacat’s Gas Service Inc.
1977-2013 Burnap Brothers Inc Plumbing Contractors