Peek at the Past

This photograph of Broad Street was taken from a tower of the Piney Woods Hotel about 1889.  The lumber in the street at lower left was for the construction of the Thomasville Opera House.  The Mitchell House can be seen in the distance on Broad Street and the Stuart Hotel on Madison Street to the left.

This photo, taken by Hansell Watt around 1910, shows South Broad Street soon after it was paved with bricks.  Horses and wagons shared the street with automobiles.  

This photo of Broad Street was taken from Remington Avenue looking north toward Jackson Street c. 1915. A poster for the Dobbs Theater is visible behind the first automobile.

This photograph of cows on Broad Street was probably taken around 1919 for a newspaper promoting Thomas and Grady County agriculture.

First Baptist Church’s second building, c. 1925, featured a corner entrance within the tower and Gothic stained-glass windows.

This photograph of the Masury Hotel, which opened at Broad and Jefferson in 1889, was taken from the Courthouse in 1908.

The Confederate Monument stood in the intersection of Broad Street and Remington Avenue when this photograph was made around 1898.  The Monument was moved to the grounds of the Thomas County Courthouse in the 1940’s.

Photographs courtesy of Thomas County Historical Society -  www.thomascountyhistory.org