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North 12th Street Lawrenceville



12th Street in Lawrenceville looking North

The History Center is located in what was once the Peoples National Bank, on the left side of the photo. You can just barely see the bakery sign down the street on the left. The Elks building doesn't appear to have been built yet, and there is a drug store was on the right side of the street. It might have been the Thorn Drug ;store as it was listed in city directories 1919-1933:


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