Around the town of Knobel
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Past to Present
        Knobel Depot
Not sure when they closed this depot down.In the 1950's & 60's this was a popular place on Saturday for the kids of Knobel . They would ride to Corning and back again after working in the cotton fields all week long. They would go and buy school clothes, watch a movie or just hang out and enjoy the day.
** John Barksdale e-mailed me his memories of the train depot.. Viewing the train depot reminds John of teh days of segregation. The south end of the depot had a waiting room for the colored passengers divided by the ticket office in the center and the white waiting room was on the north end. Each had their own bathroom and water fountains. During the WW2 war years many troop trains passed through and some of the local girls would meet the trains and hand their names and addresses through the open train windows to the troops and act as penpals to the troops. ** THANK YOU JOHN for sharing your memories****
             Oliver Tractor Building
 This building was the original Community Building-- it was called the Community Hall. Alot of different social activities were held there. It use to set on the East Side of the Catholic Church. It was moved with winches pulled with horses to up town. The Post Office was built on the North Side of it.
Earnest Bullington remembers buying a 1951 model Oliver Tractor row crop 66 from Lester Puglsley that run the Oliver Sales there. Mike Duncan has that tractor now and it has been restored and looks like new again. Thanks Earnest for the memory.
The girl on the bike is Marian Childress. The Phillips 66 sign in picture is at Johnny Lazaliers service station.
This is the Main Street in front of the Sellmeyer Building. The couple in the picture are Bill, Martha and Pam ?
Dr. Ed Silverberg was a pioneer physician at Knobel in 1885, but left there to be postmaster and doctor at Peach Orchard. He was one time postmaster at Knobel.

There was one drugstore and it was operated by Dr. Isaac H. Cunning who came  in 1903. At this time there were two butcher shops, two shoe shops, two blacksmith shops, two sawmills, one cotton gin, and two filling stations.
Post Card reads:
  Knobel, circa 1910: This brick structure housed the drugstore which was owned by a local physician. The message reads: Hello Maud and Chas: You folks think you are awful smart don't you? Hope I see you folks soon."

City Drugstore, Dr Cunning and Whitaker Props. Knobel, Ark.
**UPDATED August 5,2005**
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