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Vermont’s Old-Fashioned General Stores

Nowadays we do our grocery shopping in super-sized grocery stores. There is nothing really wrong with these stores. They offer everything that the average consumer could possibly want, and the prices are competitive. But they are very impersonal. Whatever happened to the days of the local general store, where you could purchase a bag of […]

Mast General Store in North Carolina: Valle Crucis Best Kept Secret

Take a step back in historic Cross Valley, North Carolina. Located in a historic district, it really is like taking a step back in time. Store opened in 1883 by Henry Taylor. Part of the warehouse of W.W. Mast in 1897. The store then became known as Taylor and Mast General Store. Sixteen years later, […]