Filed Under Early Settlers & Settlements
Indian River State Bank & Brady Grocery Store
![The Indian River Bank](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/390410c44f487b782d7ab68d8ef2040c.jpg)
Facing each other across Julia Street just east of South Washington Ave. are the sites of two of Titusville's early businesses. To the north (just to the left of the informational panel) is the building that housed Titusville’s first bank, the Indian River State Bank, established by Capt. James Pritchard in 1888. Built of brick, it was one of the few buildings to survive the 1895 fire. To the south is the site of an early grocery store operated by LaGrange native E.L. Brady. Destroyed in the 1895 fire, it was rebuilt in brick to protect it from any future downtown fires.
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![The Indian River Bank](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/390410c44f487b782d7ab68d8ef2040c.jpg)
![View east down Julia St, with the Dixie House (former Titus House), with the Indian River Bank on the left. Brady Grocery Store on right.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/c09da389d1f591f7383d94e4fb5d194e.jpg)
![E.L. Brady Grocery Store after the 1895 fire.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/813a454168389735821381af46cc5565.jpg)
![Another view of the E.L. Brady Grocery Store](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/5cc98253952363ddf3f38675cc7ac888.jpg)
![Interpretive panel](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/b67c0ec3d68a63798582c2f4042ee0b6.jpg)
![Before the conflagration - the close-packed wooden stores built along South Washington Ave. in the 1870s and 1880s.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/109202b6f4037f26c29135c06b3e9eb0.jpg)
![A view down South Washington Avenue, showing the devastation of the fire that swept through the commercial district on the night of 12-13 December 1895.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/27e37dfe3e0519ac1d17d773c9cace37.jpg)
![A view down Main Street towards the Indian River, showing the devastation of the fire that swept through the commercial district on the night of 12-13 December 1895.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/e1bd88a4920faa9c6dc8ee2a0cf34779.jpg)