Downtown Mooresville, Indiana has been home to many businesses during the past 186 years, beginning with Samuel Moore's trading post on the northeast corner of Main and Indiana Streets. Before there were huge discount marts, there were department store, but, before that, there were variety, or "five-and-dime" stores. Before that, there were "dry goods" stores and general stores. Learn more about G.R. Scruggs Dry Goods from our online handout.
George R. Scruggs (age 86)
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(back of photo shown below)
Scruggs dry goods store (above, 1891; below, 1904)
(Photographs by J. P. Calvert)
Advertisement from the Mooresville Guide, December 13, 1895
Scruggs sold his store in 1918 to Ad Sellars & Cal Bellows
(Mooresville-Decatur Times, January 6, 1993)
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