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Built in the 1890s, the large guesthouse burned in 1917.

Accompanying note: "Monticello Opera House was built in 1890, as a part of the "Perkins Block." It is located on Courthouse Circle, at the intersection of Rt 90 and Rt 19. Apart from the entrance the Opera House was on the second floor with stores…

Accompanying note: "Louis R. Lowery's photo of members of the 40 man patrol that planted the first American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, on Iwo Jima Feb. 23, 1945 10:20 AM. Sgt. Ernest 'Boots' Thomas, of Monticello, platoon leader, was killed a week…

Accompanying note: "Louis R. Lowery's photo of members of the 40 man patrol that planted the first American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. Feb. 23, 1945 10:20 AM. Ernest ['Boots'] Thomas, center (of Monticello), was killed a week later…

Mauma, a Partridge family slave, was brought to South Carolina on a slave ship from Africa. She came to Jefferson County with John and Eliza Partridge in the 1830's, and was Frances Weston Partridge's nurse. Frances later married Charles Thomas…

"When the watermelons are at just the right state of development-- over-ripe enough to be picked up easily by a pitchfork, but not too ripe to slip off the forks, or break open-- they are loaded by farm hands into a specially designed field seed…

The clock reads 12:15.

Note: In the right corner below the Cafe sign are members of the Monticello High School Band.

Note with photograph: "The Old Spanish Trail (Rt. 90) from Monticello to Tallahassee FL is about the most beautiful place in the world in June."

Monticello High School, also called Jefferson County High School, is a National Historic Landmark (listed in 1999). Originally built in 1852 by slave labor from Samuel Carroll?s plantation with bricks furnished by George Taylor, it was first known as…

Convicts leased to harvest timber.