Hobart Then and Now: Sixth and Main

Here is the northwest corner of Sixth and Main Streets, in 1962 and 2009.



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The gas station was set further back from the street than the Dairy Queen is now (see this aerial view of uncertain date reprinted in a booklet called "A Short History of Hobart").

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I'm updating the Chester Cemetery list by combing through the census and other records on Ancestry.com for more information about the people buried there. It's a slow and laborious process. Interesting how the census-takers seem to have spelled people's name by ear sometimes, so "Nolte" may become "Noltie" and "Sievert," "Seveart" — which, although it may confuse the researcher, also gives an impression of how the family pronounced their name at the time.

Sources:
♦ Hobart High School Memories Yearbook, 1962.
♦ Pleak, Mariam J., et al. "A Short History of Hobart." Hobart: The Hobart Gazette Publishing Co., Inc., n.d.