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Serving Homes Of The Basin For More
Than 60 Years
Congratulations To The Cherokee Scout On Its 75th Anniversary
Checkoff Confer
Furniture Department
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Grocery Department
Men's & Ladies Clothing Deportment
Gas Ftnps
Overall Outsid* View
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We're proud of our heritage, too,
because, like THE CHEROKEE
SCOUT, our business was born in
the late lBOO's.
For us, that birth took place at
the turn of the century. That's
when Tennessee Copper Company
began mining and smelting opera
tions in the Basin.
Now, the history of copper min
ing here goes back to die mid
1800' s. and to the time when ?
for a quarter of a century? men
working for a number of firms
mined ore and hauled copper to
railheads at Dalton, Georgia, and
Cleveland, Tennessee.
Several days were needed to make
one of these journeys over the
twisting mountain roads ? so mines
were closed during the 1880* s. With
the coming of the railroad to die
Basin in 1890, mining started
anew.
Still a sparsely settled area, there
was a need for merchants to serve
these miners and smelter workers.
By 1905, five industrial stores had
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been built. Most were located near
mine shafts, but one was located
next to the Copperhill smelter ?
and that's how we got our name.
The Smelter Store was moved
to a building in downtown Copper -
hill in 1925, where we carried on
our business until fire destroyed
fixtures, stock, and the building
thirty -three years later.
In December, 1958, we moved into
a new building on the Copper hill
to-Ducktown highway, within view
of Tennessee Copper's main plant.
Today, from our front door, we
see an industrial complex much
different from the one that started
operations sixty-five years ago. For
one thing, there are several plants
making sulfuric acid, now the com
pany's number one product.
Copper continues to be a major
product, along with iron sinter (a
high grade iron ore sold to steel
mills).
There is a network of buildings,
too, where a wide variety of in
dustrial and agricultural chemicals
?re made.
As for the company's merchan
dising business, the trend In re
cent years has been toward con
solidation of stores. Those at Isa
bella and Ducktown, each one more
than 60 years old, have merged
with Smelter Store since the open
ins of our new building almost six
years ago.
Now we are the only company
merchants in the Basin. But die
accent among our 40-odd employees
is still on customer service.
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Me have plenty of parking space, ' .
over 35,000 square feet of mer
chandising are*, and the latest sty- -
les In display fixtures.
We Invite you to become our cat- y ?
tomer. . .visit our grocecy-and rar_- _ .*, - ? - -
lecy departments. . .see -eorlines '
of ladles' and men's clothing.
shop our furniture and hardware
departments.
Let us be your one-stop shopping
store.
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