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THE TOWN OF CHESTER

The Town of Chester

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2000 Census
The Colonel Jacobs Yoes Building
Our town historian....Amber
     

Picture taken during the filming of the 1988 movie
"Biloxi Blues" (Colonel Jacob Yoes Bldg. in background)
The Colonel Jacob Yoes Building (a.1887) on the
National Registry of Historic Places (Was originally a
hotel and mercantile building....and banl)
Sign on side of Yoes building
     

One of the two doors on front of Yoes building
One of the two doors on front of Yoes building

Yoes Building
     

Yoes Building
Heading around the Yoes Building
Sign on side of Yoes building
     

Covered Bridge behind Yoes Building
Arch Bridge behind Yoes Building
Windows on Yoes Building
     

Back of Yoes Building
Fire Escape
Storage Building
     

Old barrel
     

Inside Yoes Building
Inside Yoes Building
     

Inside Yoes Building
Once was a bank too.....
     

Want to buy the Yoes Building? "Hotel 10,000 sq.
feet, 18 rooms upstairs. Antique Store and Cafe down,
built in 1887 on National Registry of Historic Places
$150,000 479-997-5657
Bird House
Old Chester Mercantile
(It's for sale too)
     

I think they had it all.....
....and kerosene
...and gas and diesel
     

Front door
Oldest house in Chester
The Chester Masonic Lodge and Community
Building built in 1942 from salvaged material
of an old 1903 two-story building. It is also on the
National Registry of Historic Places
     

Chester City Park
Remains of concrete anchor of an old swinging bridge
Built by the WPA in 1942...now it is the
Chester Freewill Baptist Church and was
once used as a school house.
     

Monument on side of building
Old water fountain
You better be on your best behavior when a
attending church...."surveillance cameras in use"
     

The original school house....on the National Registry
of Historic Places (a. 1885)
Farmer's Market at Chester....every Saturday
during harvest times...
You can even get breakfast during the market events.