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Post office and bank today.
In 1886 Davis had a post office and the Jacob L. Rumbarger Lumber Co. and the Fayweather & Ladew Tanning Co. opened. This established Davis as one of the earliest lumber towns in the state. Davis was incorporated in 1880 with a population of 909. In 1893, just 13 years after Edison Invented the electric light a power plant at the mouth of Beaver Creek furnished Electricity for town streetlights and some homes. By 1902, Davis had a population of about 3,000 and more than 80 businesses, including three hotels, the first of two banks, five restaurants, two sawmills, a box factory, shingle mill and tannery. There were seven churches and soon to be seven saloons. Davis had the first hospital in Tucker County. Founded in 1907 |
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