Where we once went for staples
You bought it if you couldn’t grow, make or hunt it
S oon after settlement began in what would become Lexington County, entrepreneurs opened trading posts to supply settlers with supplies and goods that they couldn’t be make, grow or hunt.
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Where we once went for staples
You bought it if you couldn’t grow, make or hunt it
Soon after settlement began in what would become Lexington County, entrepreneurs opened trading posts to supply settlers with supplies and goods that they couldn’t be make, grow or hunt.
One of the first stores here opened in 1765 in what would become known as Granby and was owned by James Chestnut and Joseph Kershaw.
The Cayce Historical Museum is fortunate to have a ledger from that store that details transactions from 1784 to 1786.
Items listed in the ledger as sold include tools, spices, sugar, molasses, and rum.
Another early store was the Red Store off of the Old State Road that is now located in Calhoun County.
JR Fennell is Lexington County Museum director
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