William Rea Store
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
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Built in 1790, the William Rea Store is the oldest brink commercial structure in North Carolina. William Rea was a Boston merchant who traded extensively between Murfreesboro and New England. The building once housed the Ferguson Implement Company, which invented the first peanut picker, but the museum includes several interesting exhibits of more well-known items. A room containing woodwork salvaged from the Gatling Plantation in Maney’s Neck (where inventor Richard Jordan Gatling was born) features a Gatling Gun. Artifacts from Native American tribes that lived in this area are also on display. You’ll find a fascinating exhibit on the Conjure Doctor, Jim Jordan, which includes the original crystal ball that he used in his conjure practice, too.
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