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This photo was taken in the early 1900s. Mr A J Davis was the father of Ida Mae Hampton and Lee Davis. Lee Davis operated a grocery in Naples during the 40's, 50's, and 60's.
This is a photograph of the Naples Community Inn built in the mid 1960s. Shares were at $2.50 per share to construct the motel. It was the pride of Naples for about twenty years until the majority of the main building burned in 1985.
This photo was taken about 1955 looking east along mainstreet. The three girls on the right are Claudette, Sara, and Tack. The black '52 Ford on the left I will bet belonged to Robert Hammonds.
This is a photo of the old Carver High School taken in 1960's. This was just before the move to the new school between Omaha and Naples which is now the Pewitt Elementary School.
Randall Ranes, on far side of car, and Gary Simpson tend to "bidness". This photo was taken about 1955.
This is a photo of the old Milton Courts that was located just to the left and behind the service station in the preceding photo. The photo was probably taken circa 1940, judging from the automobiles. It looks like about a 39 Ford in the background and maybe a 38 Buick or Pontiac in the foreground.
On 21 May, 2000, the Naples cemetery was dedicated with an historical marker as a result of research done by Glenda Brown Scarborough, right. Dedication speech was given by Bill Henderson and assisting with the unveiling is Jeanette Graham, President of the Morris County Historical Society.
This is a photo taken during the 1930's of the employees of Matthew-Coker Chevrolet Company. The business was located where the Morris County National Bank is now located.
This is a photo of the plaque used by one of the first automobile clubs in Naples, organized in the mid 1950's. Members of the club were Morris Craig, David Brown, Harry George Vissering, Lloyd Heard, and others. If I have left anyone out, it is merely because my memory is not what it used to be.
The above is a replica of a stamp once used by Nat Watts, a grand gentleman instrumental in getting the Highway 67 pretty much as we know it now built through Naples during the mid 1930's. It was known as the Broadway of American and also as the Bankhead Highway. There are several county roads that used to be the main highway before the current highway was constructed.
This photo was taken in the early 1960's and shows Rube Welch looking over the building where Welch's is now located. Before Mr Welch, the building was occupied by Calloway's Grocery. The building in the left of the photo was the location of the old Leeves Drug Store. That building is currently occupied by The Monitor.
This photo shows Mrs Annie Stewart, right, and Mrs. A A Hodges busy at the switchboard in the old telephone office that was located on the second floor of the old Morris County Bank building. The exchange was converted to dial operation at 1:01 a.m., Sunday, April 7, 1957. Naples had the prefix TW-7. The TW was for TWinbrook. Omaha had TU-4, the TU being for TUxedo. They are still the same, you can still dial TW7 or TU4 and the individually assigned last four numbers. TW7 is 897 and TU4 is 884.
This is the 1945 Naples High School graduating class. The class consisted of Leslie Joe Beck, Nell Berry, Doyse Betts, Jack Brock, Pearline Bohannon, Thadis Brown, Emma Faye Brunette, Billy Ted Coker, Billy Mack Ellis, Ben Floyd(Class President), Robert M Griffin, Marian Harrison, Peggy Harrison, Ora Helen Heard, Doris Hicks(not in photo), Iva Faye Hicks, Ray Jacobs, Frances Jones(not in photo), Irene Joyce, Ray Lewis, Virginia McBeth, Louise Minton, Cluren Victor Moore, Dewitt Smith, Juandell Tenbrook, Frances Tigert, Kathryn Tigert, John Paul Vissering, Betty Sue Vissering, Willie James Wall, and Lois Wommack. The faculty shown in photograph are Kermit Wommack(Superintendent), Ruth Harrison(Principal), Christine Keasler(Homemaking), Beryl S Hartgrove(Music/Business), Orville E Miller(Vocational Agriculture), Ethel Davis(Study Hall), Eva Simpson(English), and Bonnie Pruitt(8th Grade).
This photo was taken circa 1947 during a Saturday afternoon Trades Day event. The drawing was a big to-do in those days. Notice the old Morris County Bank building in the background. Mrs Annie Stewart and her telephone office was located in the near upstairs corner.
This is a drawing made by Ms LeeAnn Motley of downtown Naples and the Centennial Park. I was impressed with the drawing and used it for a while as the border on the first page of this web site....where all the signs are now. I am tempted to put it back.
This is a photo of the 1949 Naples High School Buffalo girls basketball team in their green and gold finery. Kneeling are Lucy Capps Myers and Johnnie Simmons Hartgrove. Standing are Barbara Davis Terrell, Betty Duncan Moore, Betty Mize Stevens, Patricia Wommack Forrest, Mary Frances Spence Mize, Jeanette Hampton Miller, Wanda Davis Ramsey, Doris McCord Lowery and Reta Grisham Voss.
This is a photo of the 1949 Naples High School Buffalo boys team. In the front row left to right are Carroll Harrison, Jack Coker, Coach W A Bishop, Ronnie Merrell, and Wendell Tenbrook. In the back row are Billy Brunette, Arthur Guy Wommack, Richard Cole, Waylon Buchanan, James Day, J W Henson, and Superintendent Kermit Wommack. It looks like the photo was taken inside the old gym.
This photo was taken circa 1935 of the old Cranford Henderson Texaco gas station.
This photo was taken during the 1960's showing Thompson's Furniture and looking in an easterly direction.
This photo of the old Naples Band was probably taken about 1898 because one of the fellows was dead by 1899. An article in a 1959 Naples Monitor indicates the photo was taken along where the old Chester Coker Ford dealership was located. The building at the time contained two prominent businesses, one owned by W J Galloway and the other owned by H B "Bud" Moore, at least, that is what the Monitor says. Looks like J H Matthews had a business there also. Mr Moore owned businesses at other locations also. Seated from left to right are Malcolm Smith, Homer Lewis, Oscar Camp, Jimmie Crysup, John Bedell, and Charley Bolin. Standing are Jim Watts, Will Russell, Sam Stewart, Arthur Lewis, Aubrey Baker, Jim Moore, Walter Stewart, and Ernest Harp.
This photo was taken from the old telephone office circa 1953. Note the city Christmas tree and the pulpwood railway car. I remember a time during one of the ice/snow storms that we tied a wooden ladder to the back of a pickup truck and several of us boys rode the ladder through the streets of Naples. The pickup could not get enough traction to go very fast and if it happened to stop suddenly, us boys would bail off the ladder to keep from going up under the pickup with the ladder. From my recollections, no one was ever injured doing this, unless one happened to be caught doing it by a parent.
This photo was taken circa 1946 in the old Naples Barber shop. Barbers from left to right are Ellis Shirey, Alva D Story, and Roy Stapp. The customers are Lenoy Slider, and unknown fellow, and Buddy Campbell.
The above photo is the 1941 Naples High School Senior Class. The class included Joan Shankles, Class Secretary Polly Campbell, Class Valdictorian (Dr.) I. M. Watson, Dalene Wyninegar, Bill Falls, Lila Gibson, Christine Hawkins, William Henry "Bill" Watson, Anita Rampley, Alice Boddie, Delwyn Moore, Iva Nell Jackson, Waldene Autry, Eugenia Berry, Iwanna Bryan, Betty Lou Irvin, Billy Simmons, Maxie Harrison, Faye Hervey, Chesley Tigert, Alta Faye Baskin, Helen Eaton, Jack Betts, Margie Nell Brock, George Gibson, Class President Jack McCoy, Odalee Davies, William Stewart, Hazel Loffer, ? Hogue, Mary McMichael, Ray Wommack, Joyce Kesseler Wommack, (Dr.) James Stewart Leeves, Eula B Tuck, Billy Jack Coode, Dorothy Elliott, ? Wommack, Marcelle Lawhon Shaddix, Porter Shaddix, ? Hawkins, David Grandberry (whom they named the Naples hospital after), Lila Merle Hampton, George William Hampton, Joyce Causey, Roly M Tuck, Bernard "Toe" Anthony, Ray Green, Jaynelle Robinson, Jack Barnes, Mavis Walker, Connor Mathews, Edgar Jolly, and Harold "Sonny" Huffman. The teachers are Archie Stewart, ? Stewart, H. T. Morris, James Kennedy, Gertrude Nolen, O. B. King, Opa Faye Kirkham and Ermadine Walls.
