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Category: dry goods store

Our Clay County Museum Building’s Past

September 23, 2022

The Clay County Museum building dates from about the mid-1850s, once thought to be as a pharmacy.  However, it apparently began life as a dry goods store.  From an issue of the Liberty Weekly Tribune, dated January 14, 1881, an article on “Liberty in 1846-7” stated “In 1847, Mr. N.H. Summers brought on a fine …

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