Citizen's Bank was once downtown

Published 7:30 am Wednesday, August 2, 2006

By Staff
I am continuing the information about the buildings in downtown Brewton. It's wonderful to look in the old issues of The Brewton Standard and find little tidbits of information. It dawned on me the other day that 50 years from now someone will be looking in today's newspaper and finding things that may let them know what it was like.
111 St. Joseph Ave.
This building was built about 1893 and a map for that year shows a general store in this location. In 1903, it was a millinery shop and a bank. It is a two-story brick building with decorative brick cornice. The fa