Webb General Store

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Alonzo Webb (left) and Jim Webb pose outside their general store in Adel, circa 1920. Originally named Puddleville, Adel was incorporated in 1889 and became the seat of Cook County in 1918.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # cok007-82.

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Webb General Store

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