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In 1893, S.T. Chance established Chance Grocery on this site as one of the earliest, if not first, brick buildings in Statesboro. In 1905, W.G. Raines built a two-story building and opened a hardware store. The building continued to serve as a hardware business under W.B. Johnson from 1933 to 1941, Sam Rosenberg from 1941 to 1942, and finally, in 1942, as W.C. Akins Hardware. W.C. Akins had begun his hardware store in 1919 on the corner of South Main and Vine Streets. In 1993, F. Gates Peed purchased the building.
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