Mom And Pop Shops Almost Gone But Not Forgotten
What Happened? What has happened to change the world so? I celebrated my 20th birthday in 1950, shortly after my Dad passed away on his 60th birthday from leukemia. The town of Piedmont, Alabama had grown from a rural crossroads community called “Hollow Stump” in the early 1840’s to be named later as “Griffen’s Creek” with a registered post office by that name. It was named a short time later by a land purchaser as “Cross Plains” and bore that name and post office until 1888 when it officially became known as Piedmont, meaning “foot of the mountains”.
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