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        Bishop Hardware Company
        Bishop Hardware Company
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        C&O Tickets
        C&O Tickets
        Tickets from a time when one of these would allow you to ride the rails from Jenkins down the length of the Big Sandy valley to Ashland.  (Courtesy of Anthony Hawkins)
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        Bud Williamson’s General Store Memo Book 1905
        Bud Williamson’s General Store Memo Book 1905
         A 1905-memo book from Bud Williamson’s General Merchandise Store at Piso, Kentucky.  The pencil notations tell us that not only was Williamson a dry goods merchant, but he also dabbled in the timber business.  With no calculators or computers, a blank memo book from a vendor, a lead pencil, and
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        Hurshel Johnson”s General Store
        Hurshel Johnson”s General Store
        Located on the Right Fork of Long Fork
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        Two Hundred Years of Merchants and Dealers Gallery
        Two Hundred Years of Merchants and Dealers Gallery
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        G. W. Stewart Triumph Motorcycle Sales
        G. W. Stewart Triumph Motorcycle Sales
        Located on Pool Point Curve, near Elkhorn City KY.
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        Raider Hale’s Pond Creek Service Station
        Raider Hale’s Pond Creek Service Station
        Rader Hale’s Harley Davidson Sales, McAndrews KY. Photos Courtesy of Red Robin Stone Heritage Archives.
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        Mayo Trail Motel, Inc.
        Mayo Trail Motel, Inc.
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        Call’s Mercantile
        Call’s Mercantile
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        Call Brothers Hardware Company
        Call Brothers Hardware Company
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