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    • Bridger Store, Bladenboro, NC

    • Bridger Store, Bladenboro, NC

    • Blande County, North Carolina, retail shops, farm supplies, general stores, historic buildings, businessmen, prominent families

    • The Bridger Corporation, at 100 Main St., located in a large 2-story brick building in downtown Bladenboro has annouced its closing. The sign in the window announces a "liquidation sale early in May" . There is yard equipment in the showroom window...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Foy-Taylor House

    • Foy-Taylor House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built as investment property for Newton Fisher (1889-1951). Purchased in 1923 by Norwood Leslie Foy (1891-1990), native of Scotts Hill, NC, partner in Foy-Roe & Company, retail clothing; and wife, Elizabeth Southerland...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Horace P. Munson House

    • Horace P. Munson House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Horace Percy Munson (1866-1958), of Munson & Company, retail clothing merchants. Residence also, of siblings, Katherine Clark (1860-1928) and Edward H. Munson (1871-1946), First Presbyterian Church organist....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Radcliffe House

    • Radcliffe House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Elizabeth Radcliffe (1798-1862), widow of Timothy D. Radcliffe (1783-1843). Purchased as residence in 1863 by Herman H. Bloom (1827-1896), retail grocer; and wife Anna E. (1825-1886), natives of Germany. Rental...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Platt-Sutherland House

    • Platt-Sutherland House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Robert C. Platt (1870-1953), retail clothing merchant and clerk in city auditor's office; and wife Robbie Sutton (1881-1966), native of Burgaw. Purchased in 1961 by William Owen Sheppard Sutherland (1890-1969),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • King-Dannenbaum House

    • King-Dannenbaum House
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    • Prairie style house built for Joseph T. King (1871-1920), native of Bladen County, General Superintendent of Transpotation for Atalntic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Hattie Mahn (1873-1940). Purchased in 1918 by Rosa Josephson (1860-1940), native...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Canady House and Store

    • Canady House and Store
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    • Built for David R. Canady (1832-1921), retail grocer; and wife, Henrietta (1839-1921). Use as residence and store or saloon continued until after 1915. In 1909, bought by Robert H. Brady (1859-1936), builder and contractor, as rental property....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House

    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House
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    • Queen Anne style house built by and for Louis Henry Vollers (1862-1943), native of Point Caswell, building contractor; and wife, Susan A. Barnhhill (1862-1942). Purchased in 1900 by John Haywood Hardin (1853-1932), native of Washington, D.C.,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cumming-Duls House

    • Cumming-Duls House
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    • Italianate style house built for Preston Cumming (1843-1914), commission merchant; and wife, Virginia Lilly (1848-1892). Purchased in 1886 by Jacob W. Dulls (1852-1915), retail grocer; and wife, Katherine Gieschen (1863-1911), both natives of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • L.W. Davis House

    • L.W. Davis House
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    • Italianate style house built for Lorenzo Warren Davis (1859-1926), native of Carteret County, NC, president of I.W. Davis & Co., retail and wholesale clothing; and wife, Sarah Catherine Smith (1870-1961). Davis was also one of the developers of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Henry T. Duls House

    • Henry T. Duls House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Henry Thedor Duls, Sr. (1862-1934), native of Paddewisch, Germany, retail grocer; and wife, Lille Adelaide Haar (1870-1945), native of Worpswede, Germany. Remained in family until 1967.
    • Port City Architecture
    • J. C. Shepard, Druggist

    • J. C. Shepard, Druggist

    • Market Street, Shepard, Pharmacist, Druggist

    • Not to be confused with Joseph C. Shepard, the Civil War Assistant Surgeon who served as Superintendent of Health (and died in 1903), this receipt, dated Dec. 1, 1905, is for J. C. Shepard, "Wholesale and Retail Druggist."
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • M. F. Croom Co.

    • M. F. Croom Co.

    • receipt, M. F. Croom Co., Croom, wine, liquor, tobacco, Water Street,

    • A receipted bill for M. F. Croom Co. - "Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, &c." "North Carolina Whiskies and Brandies a Specialty."
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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