Dr. J.P. Blair’s Dental Office

Dr. Blair operated his dental office on the second floor of this white building, located beside Mink Creek on the south side of Main St. The creek ran under this bridge on Main Street, and, as Mayor Raymon Thacker remembers, everytime Mink Creek flooded, the Blair and Moon (next door) buildings filled with muddy water.

In this photo, Dr. Blair stands to the left of the doorway.

In 1912, a little grocery operated on the Blair building’s first floor. The grocery was later replaced by a barbershop and shoeshine business.

Left to right, the buildings in the photo are

1. Charles Moon’s Mercantile
2. Dr. J.P. Blair’s Dental Office
3. A low roof shed, now an empty lot on the bank of Mink Creek
4. The Brady Building, on the corner of Main and Valley St., served as the first public school building in Scottsville (1892-1908). In 1908 after the ‘School on the Hill’ was built, the Brady school closed and was later torn down. The Masonic Lodge was then built on the lot.

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