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From Cradles to Caskets

The Mast General Store in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, was once the Wal-Mart of yesteryear. When it opened in the late 19th century, then as the Taylor Store, it proclaimed to carry everything from cradles to caskets. And it did. Like all country stores, it offered farm equipment, clothes, dry goods, seed, food items – anything one could possibly want to get along in the mountains of western North Carolina at the turn of the century. Click here to learn more.