A clear view of a storefront and a distant house. Could this have been the WPA project [see note below]that transformed the dirt road through the Bluff to gravel? Nice shot of the state of the art machinery at work.
Mules at work and clear views of structures on both sides of the road.
Schwab family house?
If the major storefront here is the Prange store, then the mystery is solved. Was the structure on the canal side of the road the Inman Store? What appears here to be a power pole would date it after the arrival of electricity at the Bluff. Even I can remember when it arrived at our place. (At least, I think I can.)
[In his memoir David Prange alludes to the red clay of the Hill Road before the marvelous improvements brought by the WPA graveling of the road through the Bluff:
"The Hill Road designation was not due to having been named for the Hill family, which was in residence there, but because within the first one-half mile upon leaving the Bluff three hills were encountered which were uniformly situated and almost equal in the height of about fifty feet. To navigate the Hill Road during and immediately after a rain was a very real challenge because it was comprised of red clay. At a later time, during the Great Depression, the WPA graded the road to be more level after which they surfaced it with loose gravel."
So, these pictures could very well be of that WPA effort -- historical indeed!
