This block of land along the western part of Mercer Street always seemed to have ties to the transportation industry. Early on it served as a livery stable where people could come to town and leave their animals to be taken care of while they shopped or rested. Beyond that, the stable had horses, buggies and wagons available for the public to rent. W.S. Garnett, Sr. bought the property in 1904 and continued to run the livery business. As the automobile industry started to take off, a Gulf station/garage was built in 1925 on the property, and W.S.'s son, Bill Garnett Jr., was the manager. The station/garage was built of tin with two driveways to provide for cars, but outside driveway had to be eliminated when Mercer was widened to make room for Highway 290. Bill eventually purchased the property from his father in 1934. However, Bill unexpectedly died in 1948, causing the station to be ran by several people over the years following Bill's death. The station eventually met the same fate as all other gas stations on Mercer, as when Highway 290 was built through town, and was forced to move to a site along 290 in order to stay in business. With the original building now being empty, one of Bill's sons, Fred, moved his butane business into the building in 1965. Fred's Garnett Butane business has houses the original building to this day. 

Owner of the above-mentioned station, Bill Garnett Jr., built his house next door to the Gulf station in 1925. The centerpiece of the house was the rock fence at the front of the home that contained dozens of artifacts embedded within. Unfortunately, over the years many of those valuable relics were removed from the wall for a variety of reasons. However, the fence still contains a cannon ball, spur, bayonet, shotgun barrel, a horse tether ring, and fossil rocks.