Sign for Pumpkin Center General Store, Population 5 1/2, Orange County, Indiana, 1972
| Description: |
Time stamped December, 1972. The sign reads 1922 - 1972, Our 50th Year - Punkin Center - Tater Road - Population 5 1/3 ?Add and Mabel (Batt) Gray opererated this general store from 1922 until 1967. It became a museum of oddities with items collected by the Grays and was open to the public until 2006 when the contents were sold at auction. [The Bedford Times Mail, 17 May 2013; The Indianapolis Star, 18 May 1986, p. 131] |
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| Origin: | 1972 |
| Created By: |
Wetzel, Paul W., 1907-2000 |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/889BBB4B-B245-4032-81B0-122043473422 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
Tater Road, Pumpkin Center, Orange County, Indiana, United States 38.589424,-86.364496 |
| Subjects: |
Paul W. Wetzel Collection Signs (Notices) General stores Pumpkin Center (Orange County, Ind.) Orange County (Ind.) |
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