Photo: Old Salters store

Country stores like this one in the Salters community of Williamsburg County, S.C., are a dying breed. Opened by J.A. Ferrell in 1880 in his home, he later built this building on the edge of his property and kept running the store until 1918. Three other merchants ran it, the last of whom closed it in 1990, writes photographer Linda W. Brown of Kingstree.

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