It could be said that Main Street either begins or ends with the Farrington Bridge. The bridge over Shoal Creek just below the Montevallo...

The house behind the new City Hall where Christopher Smitherman has his law practice was owned and occupied by the Kelly family in the...

The spot on the high bluff overlooking the Farrington Bridge over Shoal Creek on Main Street has been an important center for commerce,...

Montevallo Jail - approx. 1915 We know that Montevallo's first jail was located on the bluff over Shoal Creek and that the seat of city...

The building commonly known today as the old Victory Auto building that stands on the northwest corner of Main and Shelby Streets got its...

Well into the 1950’s, Montevallo had a number of large, two and three-story Victorian-style houses along Main Street as well as in the...

The building in the bottom photo can be easily seen today on Shelby Street, just off Main Street. It was originally constructed as a...

Rogan's Furniture Store occupied the first floor of the two story building on the corner of Main and Shelby Streets for most of the 20th...

Rogan’s store, which operated in the handsome two-story building on the corner of Main and Shelby Streets, dates back to the very early...

The old Rogan building that we have been focused on for a couple of weeks is remembered primarily for F.W. Rogan's furniture store, but...

As you can see from the photo, although looking quite different today, the building next door to Rogan’s furniture store was Montevallo’s...

The Strand Theatre was not the first “Picture Show” in Montevallo, but the Watson family, who owned and operated the popular local...

Eddie Watson and his mother were the entrepreneurs and dreamers who built and operated a modern, first-class movie theatre that opened on...

The Alabama Power Company established a Montevallo District in the early twentieth century and served the multi-county district’s...

Prior to 1960 when the first true supermarket came to Montevallo, there were five small grocery or mercantile stores on Main Street...

In 2018, the old Merchants & Planters Bank building became Montevallo’s source for a different kind of “dough” when La Conchita Bakery...

Most people who lived in Montevallo in the mid-20th century remember the handsome retail building next to the bank as Klotzman’s store....

The Klotzman brothers, Sam and Joe, came to Montevallo from West Blocton and opened a dry goods store in the former C.L. Meroney building...

Stanley M. “Red” Mahan opened his barber and beauty shop in 1927 in the space next door to what would later become the Strand Theatre....

Red Mahan and the Klotzman family were across-the-street neighbors on Main Street for many years. (Clockwise from top) Harry Klotzman and...