In its day, the Cotten family store offered anything you might hanker for: a piece of penny candy, a 5-cent cigar, a gasket for your Ford Model T or a nap on the cot by the wood stove.
Built in roughly 1935, the store boasted the only telephone in Morrisville, so customers took turns making calls on a four-party line. While they waited, old-timers gathered on the bench outside and discussed how the world was going to pot.
But last week, the remaining family tore down the sagging landmark on NC 54 at the town’s request, a concession to time and chain stores…