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BerrienCounty > Claude Devane’s Grocery Store on East Marion Avenue about 1930. Left to right: Claude Devane, Winston Knight, and Joe Brown Meyer.

BerrienCounty > Serena Thompson Meyer and Louis Frederick Meyer grocery stand on Jefferson Street behind where the old post office Service Station was located (Bailey Appliance building). Al and Pauline VanMeter in the background (Pauline was a daughter of Serena and Louis). Note jail in far back ground. This fertlizer warehouse on right was torn down in 1959

BerrienCounty > William Clark, owner of John Deere Dealership and M.E. Perry, Farmall Dealer at Farmall display of the Berrien County Fair in 1952.

BerrienCounty > Rigell Mercantile, Milltown, Georgia
Left to right: Fannie Rigell, Julia Rigell, Dave Rigell

BerrienCounty > Union Pharmacy, west side of Square in Nashville, circa 1930s. Union Pharmacy was owned by a Dr. Watson. He is shown here with Mrs. Watson and Dr. Buoie L. Bennett. (Courtesy of Zona McGuirt, daughter of Buoie L. Bennett)

BerrienCounty > Café located on S. Jefferson Street, circa 1930, operated by Omer Bennett. Omer Bennett is the chef standing behind the counter. Sitting to his left are Annie Ruth Taylor Griffin (Mrs. Foster Griffin) and Vera Bennett. Johnny McDowell's cafe was later at same location.(Courtesy of Zona McGuirt, niece of Omer Bennett)

BerrienCounty > Coca Cola Bottling Plant, Jefferson Street, Nashville Ga.
J.R. "Dick" Bennett started work with the Valdosta Bottling Plant in 1913.
In the 1920's he moved from Valdosta to Nashville and established a branch bottling plant on Jefferson St. After a few years of actually bottling Coca Cola the plant closed and became a Coca Cola warehouse. This picture shows some of the equipment used in the bottling process. The young man in the foreground is unknown to me but in the background is Fred Taylor who was employed in the actual bottling process and truck delivery. (Courtesy of Jack Bennett, son of J. R. Bennett, Sr.)

BerrienCounty > Farmers and Merchants Bank in Milltown. Pictured are employees W. C. Banks, center, and George Patten, right. Individual on left unidentified. Identification requested contact berriencountyga@alltel.net Photo courtesy of W. L. Miller Memorial Library.

BerrienCounty > Grocery in Alapaha (information needed)

BerrienCounty > Louis Meyer shoe shop, sometime prior to 1930. Louis Meyer, father of Herman Meyer, is on the left, John Mathis is on the right.
Louis Meyer was a German immigrant, born and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He came to America when he was 23 years old and lived severeal years in New York, later coming to South Georgia and living in Waycross, Valdosta, and Tifton. He came to Nashville in the late 1800s. He became a U.S. Citizen, married Serena Thompson and began his family in Nashville. He was a shoe maker by trade but also operated several retail businesses over the years. He was known as the Little Dutchman and loved his adopted country. He led the parade celebrating the signing of the Armistice after World War I. He also served as county coroner at one time. He died in 1930. His son, Herman Meyer continued to operate the shoe repair shop until 1947 when he and his family moved to Florida.

BerrienCounty > Herman Meyer Shoe Repair Shop about 1930. He operated the shop at several different locations, but the shop on East Marion Avenue was the one most will recall.

Claude Devane’s Grocery Store on East Marion Avenue about 1930. Left to right: Claude Devane, Winston Knight, and Joe Brown Meyer.

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