Surratt Courier

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That old store where the New York Deli is today was built in 1867, and was first named The People's Store (sounds communistic, doesn't it?). My family, the Huntts, purchased it in the early 1870s to replace their original store and ran it as a general store until the 1960s, when my uncle's health forced him to give up the business. We continued to own the store, however, until the 1980s, and it served a variety of businesses and even a church for awhile. Over the past ten years, it has been an ice cream factory, and now the New York Deli for the past 3-4 years. The current owner has even bought what was Mr. Huntt's casket shop next door to increase his dining space.

The moral of this history lesson is that the Yankees finally won over the Confederates in T.B. - but it took great food to do it!