First Building in Helix

It was on this lot that Helix's first building was built in 1881 by Orange Switzler. The building, called the old red house, served as a post office, a butcher shop, grocery store, rooming house, birthplace of the I.O.O.F. Lodge, and home for the first newspaper in Helix, "The Inland Homestead," in 1889.

Later, Vernon Kerley tore down the old red house and built the small home that occupies the lot still today. This house became longtime Helix residents Henry and Cassie Campbell's home in 1931.