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Sellersburg History

In the photograph on the left it appears to show a smoke stack from the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The people are residents of Speed and Sellersburg area.

Black and white photograph of the Sellersburg, Indiana Pennsylvania Railroad depot building, conductor, and passenger train in 1907. Written on the photo "May, Ed & Minnie Miller are coming. 1st Aug 1907. Originally the railroad in Sellersburg was called Jeffersonville and Indianapolis Railroad. It was renamed Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad in 1866. The railroad then became the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873. After that it was called Penn Central Railroad

Photographs of Miller Brothers Grocery. It was located at 109 N. New Albany Avenue in Sellersburg, Indiana. It was also known as Miller's Market, Miller Brothers Market, and Miller's Meat Market. Clearly 2 different buildings in the photographs but were at same location. The Miller Bros Grocery building can be seen in other photographs. The 1930 Census shows Phillip Oliver Miller owned a butcher shop in Sellersburg with Raymond and James Kenneth, his sons, working as butchers. Prior to that he was living in New Albany. Later 2 other sons, Edgar and Garland, worked as butchers too. The Miller Brothers Market was at this location until at least 1977. The all the buildings in the photographs have been razed.

Herman Popp and Karl Kramer made a wager about the results of the 1928 presidential election between Herbert Hoover, Republican, and Alfred Smith, Democrat. The loser, Popp, had to push the winner, Kramer, in a mail cart from Ernest Davis Drug Store in Speed to Sellersburg. Looking around Popp's left arm is Gilbert Himebaugh the newspaper boy who became a doctor in Evansville. The man in the cart is Karl Kramer. The fellow with the hat on is Herman Popp. They had a bet whoever won (Hoover & K.K.) got to be pushed around town by the loser."