December 1982. The wrecking ball was coming for Pulaski County’s oldest publicly accessible building. The City of Waynesville had issued a condemnation notice, declaring the structure at 106 Lynn Street a hazardous building. After nearly twenty years of abandonment and vandalism, the 128-year-old building that had sheltered stagecoach passengers, Civil War soldiers, Route 66 travelers, and World War II recruits was slated for destruction.   But this story doesn’t end with de