Traveling History Tour

 We took a little trip this summer... all of you reading this probably know that already.  We decided to make it a bit of a history tour.  This stop was in Kirtland Ohio, and this is a general store.

 General stores really were general, covering food, cloth, shoes, hats, cooking equipment, mail, and so much more.

 They worked in trade as well as money, and had a whole room just for trade-ins

 People used to live where they worked.  Saves on gas that way.  :)

 This town was settled on a creek but they still needed a sawmill so they figured out a way to run a sawmill on a two inch deep stream.

They also had an ashery.  Fascinating stuff asheries, amazing what you can make with nothing.