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Scott Knight used to own the store, and he used this to move bags of feed, and other heavy items from the two buildings next to the store. Scott used to sell all kinds of feed there at one time.There was a track that it ran on like a small railroad. We kids used to push it back and forth. We spent a lot of time in that store buying candy, ice cream, etc. In fact, you could buy almost anything there. I used to work over there once in awhile when I was young, and helped out during the holiday season. They had all kinds of gift items you could buy for Christmas, etc. Wraping paper, bows, and all. We could buy most anything there we needed without going to town. I wish the store could be fixed up like that again.
It was a fun thing for us kids to ride on. That would be a neat thing to fix up again.
The R. S. Knight Store was where everyone back then went. Even the people who came here for the summer. They sold so many different things there. The meat counter at the back of the store had all kinds of lunch meats, etc. in it. On the counter was huge round cheese container with the best Sharp Chedder Cheese you ever taseted in it. You could go in and buy a dollors worth, like my Dad and Uncle used to do everyday. We loved that cheese. I do not know anyplace now that has that brand that tasted so good.
Thanks for sharing that piece of history, Valerie!
Several years ago Herb Brown donated a pair of axles to the Schoolhouse Museum that look identical to the axles on the Center Store cart. He told us he found them 50 years ago near the Sand Hill Road quarry. This is near the beginning of the four mile horse-drawn railroad that carried limerock from the quarry to Ducktrap in the 1870s. Herb said the axles were from one of the cars of that railroad. I've always wondered if the store's cart or its axles are from the railroad as well. Does anyone know?
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