Even today all of the buildings but one or two have owners living in Brewton. In the 1900s it was common to build row stores, one, two or three stories high along the railroad tracks. This is Brewton today. We have pictures of the 1928 and 1929 floods showing the downtown area. The only thing needed to make the town look as it did in the 1920s is to take off the metal siding on two or three of the buildings and replace the porches and railings made of wood.
Old pictures assure authenticity.
During the 1900s Brewton was the center of commerce from Montgomery to the Gulf. Luttrell Hardware sold car loads of materials all over south Alabama and west Florida. Robbins and McGowin printed a mail order catalog. They sent buyers twice a year to New York. Brewton never recovered from the two floods and the Depression of 1929 and the early 1930s.