EAST MAIN STREET WALKING LOOP
W.S. Poage House, East Main Street 300 block of E. Main Street – (no longer stands) – This majestic house 420 E. Main Street – In 1836, George McFarlane purchased this once stood just west of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. It was the home of lot with all or a portion of this circa 1830 house standing on it from W.S. Poage, who is pictured on the steps in 1907 with daughters. Phelps, Peck & Company for $1,600. This two-story v-notched log house has a one-story porch and a front bay window. Cross N. 5th Street.
Noel House and Photography Shop, 300 block of East Main Street (no longer stands) Walter Noel had a photography studio in this building for over 30 years 370 A & B E. Main Street – This unusually styled one-story brick church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mrs. Noel ran a boarding and adjacent rectory was dedicated in 1937. St. Mary’s Catholic Church house on the same plot of land. had been organized in 1845 and at the time was the only Catholic Church between Lynchburg, Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee. The Cross N. 3rd Street original St. Mary’s was located on Peppers Ferry Road on the grounds of the Catholic Cemetery (now part of East End Cemetery). St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 370 East Main Street
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