Old retail space becomes new again

South County News

Old retail space becomes new again

John Long Store – operated at 110 South Main Street 1873-1898. An artist rendering of the updated space is at the right. By Maggie Snyder, Vicksburg Historical Society While many of our everyday phrases would sound foreign to our ancestors, one would be quite familiar: “I’m heading into town.” Of course, for our ancestors, the town meant Vicksburg. Shopping, or as the old timers often referred to it, “doing business”, has always provided people …