Elk City Museum Curator Charles Wren in the new General Store By Landry Brewer — A major museum addition is ready for the public.The new General Store on the sprawling grounds of Elk City’s Museum Complex is open for business. In the works for a few years, the new $200,000 facility is packed with retail relics of our pioneer past. In pioneer towns of previous centuries, general store customers could buy everything from groceries and clothes to medicine, lamps, hats, washing boards, and farm and ranch equipment.“The general store of the late 19th and early 20th centuries became the super…
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