Pharmacies in La Grange, KY

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We tell about the history of La Grange on the ghost tours. The Oldham County History Center is the best resource.

Carlos McDowell, the first mayor of La Grange, was killed during the December 1910 fire that destroyed buildings on Main Street, from where Karen's Book Barn is now located up to about where The Treasured Child is located. This photo was probably taken somewhere between 1900 and then. This location is at 104 E. Main - the old Head's Drug Store, the current location of Gallery 104.

I figured out tonight who the young man on the right is. It is Frank L. Lee, son of Dr. G.O. Lee, who was a dentist here in La Grange. Frank went on to have his own pharmacy in Eminence and then in Middlesboro, Ky. I came across a blog with their family history quite by accident. There were photographs of Frank. In this photo he is listed as "Unknown".

Barbara Manley, The man on the left looks a lot like the picture I have seen of the Mayor.

I should have said, that man on the left is Carlos McDowell.

ancestry.com List this as the Obituary for Carlos McDowell: A brick chimney fell upon him at the ruins of Dr. Cassady's residence...preparations were being made to tear down the chimney when the accident occurred..buildings were on fire in town including the res. of Dr. Cassady..Mayor McDowell was fighting the fire...this was December 1910..his wife was Miss Eva Watson, only child was twenty years old named Murray...sisters were Bettie McDowell and Mrs. Theodore Cowherd

Mayor Carlos McDowell is one of the Ghostly accounts related in The Spirits of LaGrange Tour. Strange occurrences in the Old Pharmacy include objects disappearing and being moved. The doorbell would ring and no one would be there. Most recently during ghost tours heavy footsteps are heard overhead when investigated by members of the tour, they found no one there. This is a historically accurate tour of LaGrange........