The Old Sautee Store is just a few minutes from Helen in northeast Georgia.
The Old Sautee Store is the oldest operating general store in Georgia. Located in the Sautee-Nacoochee Valley, just minutes from Helen, it was a full-service country
store selling food, clothing, seed, and farm equipment, and was also the post
office from 1913 until 1962. The store interior has been preserved
as a museum, with an original fireplace and merchandise displays to show the way things were a hundred and more years ago
The rest of store is quite up to date, with a modern grocery section specializing in a variety of cheeses, and even an ice cream shop.
In front of the store is an old-time gas pump. In order to dispense gas, the motorist had first to work a lever on the side of the pump, which brought gas from an underground tank to the glass reservoir at the top of the pump. The reservoir was marked in gallons, so when the desired amount of gas had been pumped into it, the buyer put the hose nozzle into his tank inlet and released the gas in the reservoir, filling his tank by gravity.
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