Early view of the Heilwood Meat Market building, circa 1908.

Photo showing a group of women with the Heilwood Inn in the background. To the right of the Inn is a vacant lot where the Meat Market/Butcher Shop used to sit, before it was destroyed in a 1924 fire.

Photo showing (from left to right) the Heilwood Inn, Meat Market/Butcher Shop/auxiliary school room, circa 1924

This two-story frame building was constructed in the summer of 1905 at a cost of $680. Located directly below the Heilwood Inn (see photo) it was utilized as a meat market/butcher shop until around 1919. According to tax records, Steve Wearly was the butcher.

The January 16, 1907 issue of The Indiana Weekly Messenger reported that O. W. Mitchell, of the firm Mitchell Brothers, was in Pittsburgh purchasing a railroad car load of western cattle. Some or all of this meat was probably destined for the Heilwood meat market for sale to the townspeople.

This location at some point was also the home of Ira Wilson, the railroad station manager. Additionally, due to overcrowding in the regular school building, the front room of the structure was sometimes used as an auxiliary classroom (see photo).

On February 19, 1924, the building was completely destroyed by a fire caused by faulty wiring.

School picture taken circa 1921, quite possibly in front of the “old meat market” below the Heilwood Inn, where the front room was converted into a classroom due to overcrowding in the school.