Scott's Store was a historic commercial building located near

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. The building, now demolished, was built in 1875 and located at Scott's Corner at the intersection of Delaware Rt. 404 and Delaware Rt. 36. The original proprietor, Charles Manlove Scott, opened the store seven days per week at 4 a.m. Scott, born in 1858, was a founder of the Bridgeville Bank of the Baltimore Trust Company in 1904. He retired from the store in 1915 and served as bank director until his death in 1933. Roland F. Melson was the first person outside the Scott family to own the store. The building was a two-story, rectangular, frame structure in a simplified

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style. It sat on a brick foundation, was sheathed in weatherboard, and had a gable roof. The storefront had a pair of double doors and a large one-story, hipped porch roof extending across the face of the building. Also on the property was a contributing garage and

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, and a submerged round metal tank used to mix carbide gas. It was typical of 19th-century country stores of southern Delaware. and ' It was added to the

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in 1983.

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