City Directories and History: Known as the Francis Rapley Owings homeplace, constructed in the mid 19th century, with subsequent Queen Anne additions to the front. It has also been used as the Methodist manse as well as the home of Mancel and Sue Owings. Reportedly, Owings’ oldest remaining home. Mr. Owings owned both the store and drugstore in the community and prior to the community being called Owings, it was named Rapley as shown on the sales notice on this page. The store papers show that F.R. Owings and W.M. Owings were partners in the store.
R&R Note: The ledger is a rather large book and many of the pages have old newspaper articles and recipes glued to the pages, making it virtually impossible to copy. The notes and pages shown here are a sampling of the items found within and on the pages of the ledger.
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