Hinds-Statewide County MsArchives News.....RAYMOND_A Short History of the Town and Its Advavtages May 23, 1902
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Raymond Gazette May 23, 1902

There is a brick storehouse that was built at the cost of $60,000. It has
Iron front, plate glass windows, and is elaborately finished, both inside
and out.  The builder of the fine store was Mr. George W. Gibbs, a
princely merchant, who came from Virginia.  He began business as agent
for a Mr. Ish, also a Virginian, first locating at Raymond and afterwards
at Utica.  Returning to Raymond, he opened a mercantile establishment
upon his own account, and in a few years amassed a fortune.  The store-
house is constructed in two departments, with second story and cellar
to each.  The largest of the two rooms is 200 feet long and the smaller
150 feet long.  It was erected before the war of secession, the founda-
tion being laid in 1858, and the building completed two years later.  The
contractors were the Weldons, the same who built the courthouse.  When
first occupying his new storehouse Mr. Gibbs placed in it a stock of goods
valued at $75,000.  Supplying numerous plantations, worked by thou-
sands of slaves, he had an annual business of fully a quarter of a million
dollars.  About the same time he also erected a brick residence at a cost
of $12,000.  The storehouse and residence are now the property of his
daughters, Miss Lydia Gibbs and Mrs. Annie Dillon.


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Part of a larger article published in the Raymond Gazette, Volume LIX, May 
1902.
Raymond, Hinds County, Mississippi

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