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Grand Bay Historic District

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Grand Bay Historic District is a historic district in Grand Bay, Alabama. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the district comprises twelve acres and the three remaining original buildings from Grand Bay's central business district. The buildings include the former Freeland General Store, Grand Bay State Bank,Business Entity Details: Grand Bay State Bank, Inc.Annual Proceedings of the Alabama Banker's Association, January 18, 1911 and a small commercial building. The site was once the central business hub of the town and included an L&N passenger station, railway freight station, numerous packing houses, and additional general mercantile businesses.One of those businesses which is no longer in existence was the Hamilton-Day Mercantile Co. http://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=733827&page=name&file=Baedeker, Karl, The United States, with an excursion to Mexico, (Scribners, 1904) p.422.Ballard, Gussie Alexander, Remember Our Yesterdays?, (New Orleans: Pelican Publishers, 1960) Read more on Wikipedia

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