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This photo, taken looking south-southeast, shows the grain elevator built by Wilson W. Baker in 1894, with the Clyde depot behind it to the right. The houses in the background are on the south side of Meribah Street, east of the tracks. The dirt road in the foreground is Main Street (now Milford Road) as it begins its turn to the north at the grade crossing. The elevator shown here replaced an earlier building built by David S. Barrett and his son, Fremont J. Barrett. The Barretts sold out to Willoughby and Wallace, from whom Wilson W. Baker purchased the business in 1893. Among other improvements, Baker's new elevator had a gasoline engine as a power source. Baker himself later sold the business to Gross and Wager, who in turn sold it to the McLaughlin Brothers. It was last owned by Elmer Sutton when it burned in the early 1900's.
