33 North Main Street

This place was built by C.M. Keedy in 1853. The basement was the first and only subscription school in the town preceding the public school system. It was taught by Kate E. Wilson who became the wife of hotel keeper, David H. Wyand. She was nicknamed “Captain Kate” for her strict manner of marching the children through town. She was an ardent Temperance advocate and organized the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It has been said that she was the hostess to Carrie Nation, the notorious lady who traveled widely through the west using a hatchet to destroy places carrying hard liquor.