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Amonate
Company Store
This primitive folk art painting was painted by
former Tazewell resident, George Barnett, who currently resides in Port
Orange, Florida.
The store belonged to the Pocahontas fuel
company. It opened around 1925 and closed in the late fifties or sixties.
It was torn down in the late sixties or seventies.
Upstairs you could buy anything from candy
to clothes and could use the company's money called script. Downstairs
on the left you could get a haircut and around to the right there was a
restaurant and pool hall, another way to get the poor miner's money.
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