The first store actually called Dollar General wasn’t opened until 1955, with the idea that all items in the store would be $1 or less. The idea took off quickly and all J.L. Turner stores were changed to Dollar Generals. The chain reached 29 stores by 1959. J.L. ...
In 1904, Scripps publishing tycoons George and Ellen Booth purchased a derelict farm in Bloomfield Hills and proceeded to transform it into a sprawling estate, christened Cranbrook in honor of the Booth family ancestral homeland in the English countryside. The focal point of the property was the ...