Postbellum Bass went into the wholesale grocery business. The very successful firm employed 25 salesmen across the entire South, concentrating in the Carolinas and Georgia. The fact that they handled fancy groceries helped them out do the competition. His building still graces the 1200 block of Cary Street, part of the immediate rebuild after the great fire of 1865, when Richmond fell from defeat.
Postbellum Bass went into the wholesale grocery business. The very successful firm employed 25 salesmen across the entire South, concentrating in the Carolinas and Georgia. The fact that they handled fancy groceries helped them out do the competition. His building still graces the 1200 block of Cary Street, part of the immediate rebuild after the great fire of 1865, when Richmond fell from defeat.
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