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Photographer: Pickens County by Piper Peters Aheron
Caption: Gaines and Gassaway Store
Additional Description: When the railroad terminal moved to Greenvile, a few stories in Central closed. R.G. Gaines and Gassaway on Gains Street remained open and even expanded into a two-story brick store with an elevator. Gaines and Gassaway actively traded in general merchandise, farm livestock, and cotton bales. (Source: Pickens County by Piper Peters Aheron (2000), pg 38.)
Submitted: April 17, 2010, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p105158
File Size: 0.056 Megabytes

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