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from Searcy, Arkansas: A frontier Town Grows up with
America
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| Dr. P.A. Robertson, a young druggist possessed with a spirit of adventure, worked for the reputable drug firm of Mansfield-Van Fleet in Memphis during the 1850s. Heeding the advice of Horace Greeley, he went west in 1858, as far as Fort Smith. Finding little there to his liking, he turned east and stopped at Searcy. This was the place he was looking for, as here opportunities abounded. He rented a building on the north side of the Courthouse Square and opened a drug business but when business prospered he had constructed by Stephen brundige, Sr. the two-story building on the southeast corner of the square. A row of trees once provided a cool respite in front of the store, and a hitching rail ran down the length of the east side for customers convience. In addition tp drugs and elixirs of all descriptions, Robertson, who had the only glas-cutter in town, sold window panes, as well as paints, oil, and other household supplies. |
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