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WALDRON HOTEL
The Waldron Motel was built in the late 1890's on the corner of Waldron and 
Taylor Streets in Corinth.  Mr. Barnhill, around the time the Illinois Central 
Railroad was being constructed through the Crossroads area, built the hotel, a 
glamorous building with two stories and 10 to 12 rooms per floor.  A third 
story was added to the hotel when Miss Lula Robinson was manager, and the hotel 
was later torn down in the 1960's.
Built close to the railroad tracks, the "bell boys" met the train to bring the 
customers by coach back to the hotel.
The guest register is in the possession of the Northeast Museum.  It reveals 
that R.I. Hill was the manager in the 1900's.  Mr. Leon McCullar also manager 
the hotel for many years.  During McCullar's management, people traveled to the 
hotel to taste the delicious gourmet food prepared in the hotel's restaurant.  
Mrs. McCullar was a gourmet cook and people were known to travel from the Gulf 
Coast just to eat her cooking.
A famous black poet, Jonathon Brook, was said to have once been a bellhop at 
the famous Waldron Hotel.


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