The intersection of Main and Gamble in Shelby is a crossing of highways, so it carries a lot of traffic today, but it is also a crossroad of history: because the whole city started right here. In the 1820s James Gamble built a horse-powered grist mill in the woods of Richland County, and he planted it where the bank stands today on the southeast corner. The town just grew up around it.
Like the best places where today and yesterday intersect, the view from the corner is different today than it was in the 1930s, and it is hardly different at all.
