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General store. A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise. [ 1] It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to ...
New Salem, Illinois. Owner. Abraham Lincoln. William F. Berry. The Lincoln-Berry General Store was a general store that was co-owned by Abraham Lincoln. The store is one of the reconstructed 1830s buildings at Lincoln's New Salem, a state historic site. [ 1] It was and is the only frame (not log) building in New Salem.
April 3, 1973. The Mast General Store is a general store located in Historic Valle Crucis, North Carolina. It is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as one of the best remaining examples of the type. It is still the center of the community housing the post office (Valle Crucis, NC 28691) and offering coffee for 5¢ on the ...
The history of retail encompasses the sale of goods and services to consumers across all cultures and time periods from ancient history to the present. [ 1] Commerce first took the form of bargaining between early human civilizations. Beginning with Middle Eastern towns in the 7th millennium BCE, retail markets emerged when civilizations ...
Website. www .caseys .com. Footnotes / references. [ 1] Casey's General Stores, Inc. ( doing business as Casey's) is a chain of convenience stores in the Midwestern and Southern United States. The company is headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines. [ 2] As of October 1, 2023, Casey's had 2,500 stores in 16 states.
Mast General Store. Mays General Store. McCarthy General Store. Meier General Store. Mikulich General Store. Milton Masonic Lodge and County General Store. Moyers Building.
Barbour's General Store. Coordinates: 45.272516°N 66.062542°W. Barbour's General Store Museum in Saint John, New Brunswick. Barbour's General Store was a museum and tourist hub in Saint John, New Brunswick. It was an authentic 19th-century general store building, preserved and used to recreate a Victorian-era educational experience for visitors.
The store was opened in about 1850 by R.A. Gaither. About 1890 operation by W.C. Crawford began, and the business was operated by him and his son, Knox Crawford until 1972." [2] It is a "simple, two story structure of clapboard painted white. There is a partial false facade rising from the eastern half of the building's front wall, adding ...