Drug Store
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member brwhiz
N 35° 23.551 W 119° 01.259
11S E 316454 N 3918448
This is one of many historical interpretive signs on the grounds of the Pioneer Village at the Kern County Museum in Bakersfield.
Waymark Code: WMJDXH
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member MrsMcFly
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Drug Store

Treatment for illness and the maintenance of good health were important for the success of a new community.

Early pharmacists compounded prescription medicine with mortars and pestles, made their own pills, and sold popular patent medicines, which promised to cure a variety of ills.

Francis M. Carlock operated his dray and transfer business out of this building, which originally stood on 18th Street in downtown Bakersfield. A dray is a two- or four-wheeled wagon used for transporting heavy loads or objects such as large machines.

Francis M. Carlock’s daughter, Harriet Carlock, donated this building in 1955.

Group that erected the marker: Kern County Museum

Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Kern County Museum ~ Pioneer Village
3801 Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, California
93301

URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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