The Dickey Mouse was in this 1965 advertisement with other Yorktown Merchants.
Dickey Mouse
Dairy Queen 1961
The Dairy Queen was on Smith Street in downtown Yorktown. At this time there was no dine-in service. One just walked up and placed an order. The very first Dairy Queen opened in Illinois in 1940.
The Dairy Queen appeared in this 1965 advertisement of Yorktown Merchants.
Yorktown Methodist Church
The Yorktown Methodist Episcopal Church built their first church in January 1875. The churches were supported by ministers who rode a circuit to minister to the people. The earliest churches in Yorktown met in homes and the school house.
Just 23 years after building the first church, they had outgrown it. The old church was moved to another site and another church built in the same location on the corner of High and Walnut Streets. These boys pose sometime after 1898 in front of the brick structure. The church had a fire in 1950 The structure is still in use in 2021 by the Baptist Church.
Carpenter Hardware Cammack
Byely’s Drug Store
Later was Bonnet Drug Store downtown
Airport at Hwy. 32 and Andrews Road
1947 Yorktown Senior Class History
Want to see their smiling senior photos? Class pictures can be found in the photo gallery.
Graduating class members are: Barbara Ann Applegate, Donna Louise Atwell, Julie Alice Broadwater, Beverly Rose Burgess, Harold H. Byerly, Richard C. Clark, Clarence A Cook, Reva Mae Curtis, Earl Davenport, Jr., Norman Ralph Dragoo, James Richard Estep, Robert Winton Fadely, Wilbur Richard Fight, Martha Sue Fosnaugh, Robert Maurice Gale, Zane Jay Grey, Betty Jean Hamilton, Birlsel Gale Hodson, Roberta Ellen Humes, Vera (Brown) Ingram, Forrest Richard “Dick” King, Helen Marie Kiser, Mary Lou Morgan, Alberta Faye Morris, Keith Hampton Morrison, Lois Ann Payne, Lois Ann Reed, Margaret Jean “Peggy” Richards, Joanna Mae Sellers, Vona Sue Stark, Bertie Eloise Stephenson, Thomas F. Stewart, Harold Elwood Terrell, Amaryllis Nancy Terry, Mary Frances Ware, James “Jim” Raymond Watkins, Bertie Lee Wray
Also: Howard Jones-Discharged Serviceman
