A photograph taken about 1995 of Shade’s Grocery Store, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building still stands today and continues to be a small, independent grocery on the northeast corner of the intersection of Specktown Road and Rout 25 (West Market Street).
It is believed that the original building on this site was a tavern and inn that dated back to 1817. No evidence has been found to indicate that a tavern or inn was operated here after the early 1850s. The original building was demolished in the late 1960s and the present building was built which has operated as a grocery to the present.
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