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First built as Watkins Dry Goods Store, it sold clothing and also included a school room where books could be bought. Walter Lea Thomas bought it in 1910 and operated it with his sons as a general merchandise store and a post office, and Edmund Dixon Thomas continued to own and operate it until 1972.
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Milton, North Carolina · United States
