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Location of Grain Elevator and Association with Railroad <br />The Grain Elevator and the nearby Acme Mine that was located at Roosevelt and Hutchinson used the <br />same railroad spur that left the main track just northeast of the Elevator and curved over to the Acme. <br />In fact, the 1905 deed that conveyed the property from Peter F. Murphy to J.K. Mullen specifically <br />referred to the "Acme switch" in its legal description of the parcel (a description repeated in the 1957 <br />deed to the Thomas family). The following section of the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville shows <br />this relationship, with a building labeled "Elevator" on the upper right, on the spur that continued to the <br />west past the Acme mine dump towards the Acme Mine. <br />1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Louisville Historical Museum <br />This map shows how the Elevator was actually constructed to be parallel to the railroad spur, not the <br />main track. This is why even today, even with the spur gone, it sits at an angle to the main track. It is <br />believed that the reason was that it was better for the railroad cars being loaded with grain at the <br />Elevator to not block the main line of the railroad. <br />This photo, looking east, shows the relationship of the Elevator to the Acme Mine, with the Elevator <br />visible in the rear to the left of the photo: <br />5 <br />