Fowler History Mysteries
- The more I learn about Fowler history, the more questions I have. Hopefully
some of you can help me with these, which I list below.
1. Virtually no one alive knows anything about the Alden Fruit Preserving
Company and why it closed. The wood reportedly survives in the form of
a barn west of Fowler. Does anyone have any idea where this is?
2. I have written virtually nothing about the old bank building because
I know virtually nothing. It was robbed in the 1920s. What is the history
of the building itself. When was it built, and when was the bank established?
3. Among the old, old pictures of family members that my mother recently
loaned to me, there is a picture of school children standing in front of
a small school building. The building is not the same as the old wooden
school house. The picture is dated 1917 and includes Joy (Gray) Farrell.
I will try to print it in the next issue of The Fowler Record. Where was
this building, and when was the old Victorian school house built?
4. Why was Fowler the site of a depot? Was there a ready source of
water that served as a source of water for the steam engines?
5. There once was a Methodist church in Fowler. What happened to it?
What happened to the church records?
6. Similarly, what happened to the U.B. Church records?
7. A printing press was present in Fowler as early as 1914, but the
only newspaper didn't start until the late 1920s. Or did it? Was there
a newspaper before the Quincy Suburban (original name of the Fowler Record)?
If not, what was the printing press used for?