Walter Kitching Co., 1917

Walter Kitching (1846-1932) immigrated to the U.S. in 1867 and settled in Florida in about 1883. In 1887 he started a business delivering goods to settlers along Indian River. In 1894, he and wife Emma Michaels built a home in Stuart and grew pineapples and fruit. In 1897, he opened a general store on what's now Flagler Avenue near the railroad and the water; this he sold to Raulerson Grocery Company in 1922. In 1914 he built this second store, which included the town's first cold storage and soda fountain; it was destroyed by a hurricane in 1928.

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1917

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