The old grocery at Towanda

Kansas · USA · House

The grocery building at Towanda, Kansas is among the oldest in the town, and it has had a considerable number of lives.

Local account holds that it was an orphanage, and later a home for what the period called wayward women, meaning women with nowhere else to go. Truck drivers slept in the basement.

Women working in the grocery have reported crisp packets moving, trolleys rolling on their own, the smell of fresh coffee where none is brewing, and cold air.

The smell is the report that recurs most often and is the hardest to explain away in a shop.

A building that housed orphans and then unmarried women in a small Kansas town was, in both roles, holding people the community had decided needed somewhere to be put. That history is the reason anyone tells stories about the building rather than about the shop.

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Hvor ligger The old grocery at Towanda?

The old grocery at Towanda ligger i Kansas, USA.

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