Where the Fire of 1927 Stopped - at the Masonic Lodge Building

This photo was taken the day of the fire shows the wall of the West Blocton Masonic Lodge. The photo was taken by Mrs. Coleman Parker (Lelia Payne Turner), looking east from Davey's Store. The lodge wall is the wall that stopped the fire, but not before most of the entire business area had burned to the ground. More information at this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~albibb/towns/1927blocktonfire2.htm



The fire stopped here at the Masonic Lodge because there was a brick wall on the end of the building. This brick wall had no windows and inadvertently, and thankfully, served as a firewall.

This photo shows a new building next to the present-day lodge that was not in the fire, but was built later. Next to the lodge during the fire, there was a vacant lot that also helped stop the fire.