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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 23075015, member: 1886&quot;]Star Grocery Company-- brass, M/A, 21mm, 3.7 grams, Ninety Six South Carolina.</p><p><br /></p><p>The town of Ninety Six began as a trading post on a road that was 96 miles from the Keowee Indian village. Eventually it would have 12 roads going into it which made it a strategic point during the Revolutionary War. And so the British built the now famous Star Fort there.</p><p><br /></p><p>In May and June of 1781 Patriot General Nathanael Greene put a seige on the Fort.&nbsp; He built a tower for snipers to shoot down from and he had people digging a tunnel under it to set off explosives.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then he got word that the British were sending troops up from Charleston to break the seige so he decided to try an all out attack on the Fort. He wasn&#039;t able pull it off so he departed Ninety Six with the British 30 miles away.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Star Grocery Store, it was built in 1921 and was the company store for the Ninety Six Cotton Mills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sources: Numismatics of South Carolina Merchant Trade Tokens--Tony Chibbaro.</p><p>And the Interwebbie.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1545691[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1545692[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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