The house pictured above was built by Alonzo Hartman Rowe before 1901. It was located at 308 W. Knox, where the post office back parking lot is. As you can see it was an ornate structure, but due to disrepair had to be torn down sometime in the early 1960s, when the post office expanded.
Alonzo Rowe was born in 1839 in North Carolina. His father was Joseph Hartman Rowe and his grandfather was Peter…
