Historic Photos of North Chesapeake City, Part 5

Historic Photos of North Chesapeake City, Part 5

The 1914 flood on the Causeway. At left is the Masonic Hall, which housed the post office, the movie theater, a barber shop, a milliner’s shop, and several other businesses. At right was a luncheonette and ice cream parlor.

Masonic Hall (1914 flood) with Chesapeake City jail at left. The entrance to Long Bridge is in foreground. John Sager remembered an inmate singing from our old jail. He sang, “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.” Rube Hevelow was the jailer at the time.

 

Groom Steele’s grain office on the Causeway. The building became Jumping Jim’s barber shop on the South Side. The building is now a private residence on the North Side, at the NW corner of Biddle and Hemphill Streets.