1891 Block 4 - Coquille City, Oregon
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Shed Hunnewell-Band Hall Suggs & Jones Dressmakers Cobbler J.A. Collier Hardware Carother's Grocery & Dry Goods* Knowlton's Drug Store
Collier Saloon Mrs. Aiken's Millinery Sinclair & Harlocker, Attorney Brezee's Barber Shop Johnson's Meat Market McCullock's Jewelry Vacant Collier Residence Vacant Offices Olive Hotel Outbuildings Olive Hotel Outbuildings Dwelling Dwelling The Olive Hotel
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1892 Fire

    About one o'clock in the morning of May 31, 1892, a fire broke out in the Band Hall (Hunnewell building) in some unaccountable manner, the hall not having been used for several days, and owing to the absence of fighting facilities soon spread and laid in ashes the Hunnewell hall owned by C. Watkin's whose loss was about $4500, no insurance.
    J.A. Collier's hardware store, loss, $10,000, with no insurance. The buildings belonging to Harlocker were worth $3000 and no insurance. They were occupied by Mrs. Aiken's millinery store whose loss was $600; Sinclair and Harlocker, real estate and law office; and Brezee's barber shop. Johnson's grocery and meat market, McClullock's jewelry stand, Olive Hotel, with stables and shop, loss $6000, insured for $4000; vacant residence owned by Mrs. Collier, loss about $1200, no insurance.

From Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, edited by Orvil Dodge, 1898, p.242
For more information on this fire, continue to Front Street. You can also see the resulting devistation to the downtown area in the 1894 Sanborn map.

The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale maps, dating from 1867 to 1961. These maps show the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities with populations of more than 1000 people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps were designed to assist fire insurance agents in determining the degree of hazard associated with a particular property and therefore show the size, shape, purpose and frequently the names of prominent businesses. The maps also indicate widths and names of streets, property boundaries, and house and block numbers. Sanborn maps are thus an unrivaled source of information about the historical use of buildings in American cities.

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