Saunders drugstore

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1. 1855 Richard Benbury Saunders buys the Lucas drugstore Saunders, a UNC graduate of 1854, bought Dr. Lucas's drugstore at Franklin and Henderson and ran it until he moved to Raleigh in 1868. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 99
2. by June 7, 1857 Druggist R. B. Saunders puts up a street lamp in front of his Chapel Hill store Richard B. Saunders put up a street lamp in front of his store on Franklin Street, and the Gazette urged other merchants to light their storefronts the same way. The Chapel Hill Gazette, June 13, 1857, p. 2
3. 1862 Druggist Richard Benbury Saunders makes blue mass for the Confederacy Saunders enlisted in 1861 but was back at his Franklin Street drugstore by 1862, compounding blue mass, a mercury purgative the Confederate army counted as essential. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 107

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