ANOTHER FUN FACT!

 

H.P. WEBB & CO. one of Sandstones successful businesses, entered this float in Sandstones Fourth of July Parade in 1904.  Webb established a grocery, hardware and furniture store in Sandstone in the late 1890s in Sandstone commercial building on the northeast corner of Main Street and Fourth Street and two adjacent buildings.   The Sandstone State Bank moved into the corner building in 1906 shortly after it was established by Webb and his partners.  H.P.  Webb & Co. operated the hardware and furniture store located just east of the bank until it burned in 1923.  He was also the undertaker and ran that business In connection with the furniture store located north of the bank

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