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the property records indicate that it was not owned by a mining company until after the <br />building was condemned due to subsidence. The 2000 Historical Survey states that "the <br />Miners Trading Company was Louisville foremost business which supplied equipment <br />for the coal mining industry," but this statement could not be confirmed. The Sanborn <br />maps indicate a general merchandise store at this location. <br />The second floor of this brick building was used as an IOOF (Independent Order of the <br />Odd Fellows) Lodge Hall, as indicated on both the 1893 and 1900 Sanborn Maps. <br />Photo 3 shows a close-up of what is believed to be the front of this building with a boys' <br />band. <br />Photo 3, Louisville Historical Museum <br />The last Sanborn Map for Louisville, made in 1908, indicates that there was in 1908 a <br />restaurant along the south side of the building. <br />Photo 4 gives the overall setting on Main Street for this building, which appears on the <br />left, and shows the Town Hall located just to the north of it and the picket fence in front <br />of the Austin-Niehoff House (now the Parks & Recreation Department for the City of <br />Louisville) just beyond. The current building at 700 Main (the Huckleberry Restaurant) <br />had not yet replaced the building shown in the photo. <br />