Old Faulkner-Pierce Drug Store

Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana

Subject:                           Old Faulkner-Pierce Drug Store

Erected by:                     Indiana Division of Tourism and the Metamora

                                      Shop Keepers 1976

Located:                         Northeast corner of Main and Columbia Streets,

                                                Metamora, Indiana (# 160 on Metamora Map)

Text:                               Landmark building of the canal era.  Drug store

1840-1916.           Hardware store 1923-1961.  Front

half constructed in 1840, as canal boats floated by. 

Back half built in late 1860s, after Civil War. 

Built of rock from nearby Duck Creek.  Bears

name of Metamora’s original canal hostelry, no longer, standing.  Back room was variously Millinery Shop, Shoe Store, Barber Shop and Post Office.  Top floor was Red Men’s Lodge Hall.  Along west side of this building, under the shade of a huge maple tree, was the town bench where villagers gathered to swap yarns.  It was called the “mourners” bench or the “liars” bench.