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By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • How much do you know about the Mt. Gilead area? Let’s find out. (The answers are at the bottom.)

  1. What building in Mt. Gilead was originally built by L.P. Byrd as Moore’s Livery?
  1. What Mt. Gilead building was altered in 1934 for use as a motion picture theater?
  1. What building in Mt. Gilead burned down in the late 1930s and was rebuilt as the Gilmont Theatre?
  1. The Mount Gilead Downtown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in what year: 1975, 1985, 1995 or 2005?
  1. Jordan Lumber & Supply Company started in Mt. Gilead in what year: 1929, 1939, 1949 or 1959?
  1. McRae Industries was founded with a primary focus on providing high-end: military boots, orthopedic shoes or children’s shoes?
  1. McRae Industries was founded in what year: 1955, 1959, 1965 or 1969?
  1. What is the Lilly Pad on Lake Tillery: A) a new restaurant featuring frog legs; B) a shorefront arcade room; C) a rental place to spend the night; or D) an inflatable cushion you sit on and other people jump on it, vaulting you into the lake?
  1. Which number is closest to the number of dry and wet slips available at Lilly’s Bridge Marina: 30+, 75+, 125+ or 250+?

   10. What restaurant moved into the old Ford Place restaurant in 2018?

The answers:

  1. Mt. Gilead Town Hall
  2. Mt. Gilead Town Hall
  3. Mt. Gilead Town Hall
  4. 2005
  5. 1939
  6. Children’s shoes
  7. 1959
  8. A rental place to spend the night
  9. 250+
  10. Milano’s