B&B Restaurant

Originally built in Locke and moved to Nappanee, the building was torn down in 1963 when the B&B remodeled. The B&B opened in 1926.

One can speculate what was in this building. It may have been William Miller’s tin shop. He had gone to Locke and purchased John Blessing’s tinner tools. William Miller also shared a building with Enos Newcomer at one point. It was here on the corner.

When all this was happening, Mr. Simons moved his grocery store to north Main Street from Locke. In 1881, it was thought that a young gentleman was in Locke selling whiskey on commission to other men in Locke. He had been purchasing it from Nappanee and then selling it in Locke.

Around the same time as the gentlemen selling whiskey in Locke, a concerned citizen of Locke wrote into the newspaper asking why there was quite the number of gentlemen from Nappanee in Locke and wondered what they would want there. He wanted the gentlemen to explain themselves.