Echoes of Pulaski- Valley View/Lake Sumpter Traditional Cache
Echoes of Pulaski- Valley View/Lake Sumpter
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The Valley View Apartment building was a business show place of Pulaski back before the turn of the century when Commerce and Valley Streets were the center of the business section.
Built by L. S. Calfee in the 1800's the Calfee Building, as the Valley-View Apartments were known then, was the first location of the Old Pulaski Loan and Trust Company . . . the predecessor of today's Pulaski National Bank. Fred Seagle, G. C. Hall and other long-time Pulaski residents recall that the Calfee Building housed the Pulaski Post office back in the McKinley administration. Upstairs in Calfee Building during the 80s, E. S. Calfee, O. C. Brewer and other pioneer lawyers maintained their offices.
At one time Pulaski's leading clothing store, operated by W. A. Phelps was located in the Calfee Building. Later E. S. Calfee owned the first 5 and 10 Cent Store in Pulaski in this Commerce and Valley Street location. In the building addition next door on Valley Street, early Pulaskians saw their first motion pictures.
Old faded and worn, the Valley View Apartment building collapsed in an early morning explosion Friday, April 26, 1956.
The building was blown into twisted timbers and rubble by the blast, touched off when W.J. Mahaffey, the operator of a restaurant on the ground floor tried to light a gas hot water heater.
It happened at 5:50 a.m. EST while most of the occupants of the building were sleeping.
Lake Sumpter, located at the connection of the current Lake, Cliff, State, and Commerce
Streets, was part of the meandering Peak Creek basin in the days before the Peak Creek
Channel was created. Its draining was part of the commercialization plan of the Pulaski
Land and Improvement Corporation. The site currently includes the Town’s Public
Works Department.
This is an ear plug container micro located between the former Valley View and Lake Sumpter sites. Use stealth with passing traffic.
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(Decrypt)
Cnhy Xavggvat Zvyyf. Ubzr bs Vebafbk. Ubyr va jnyy.
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