{"id":2940,"date":"2021-10-14T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2021-10-14T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:59:38","slug":"troy-tornado-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/troy-tornado-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Tornado 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A TORNADO STRUCK TROY ON MARCH 26TH<\/sup>, 1949.<\/strong><\/center>
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\n\"factory1.jpg\"factoryb.jpgThis is a front and rear picture of the Salant Factory which was located on the south side of the town square. In later years this building \u00a0 housed Smith’s Food Town. This building was destroyed by fire in 1979.\u00a0 The Troy City Hall and Rebel Video buildings have since took its place.<\/p>\n

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This building was the home of Wade Furniture Store in 1949.\u00a0 It is located on the north side of the town square.\u00a0 During that time period, there was an alley between that building and the Dr. C. H. Hill Clinic building.\u00a0 A shed was constructed in this alley and it was used to house one of the town’s fire carts.\u00a0 In the 1950’s a building was built between the two buildings.\u00a0 The Wade Furniture building later became the Nickels Shop during the 1960’s.\u00a0 It still stands today on Troy Square’s North side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n(the above information was submitted to the original Obion Co TNGenWeb site around 2000)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A TORNADO STRUCK TROY ON MARCH 26TH, 1949.Photos courtesy of Leroy Albritton This is a front and rear picture of the Salant Factory which was located on the south side of the town square. In later years this building \u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}