Tyson Drug CO

Tyson Drug Company is a fast, friendly, reliable family of pharmacies where modern-day convenience meets old-fashioned service. In the early days of Holly Springs, Dr. Jasper Butler opened a medical center and pharmacy at the location of the current ...

Tyson Drug Company is a fast, friendly, reliable family of pharmacies where modern-day convenience meets old-fashioned service. In the early days of Holly Springs, Dr. Jasper Butler opened a medical center and pharmacy at the location of the current Tyson Drug Company on the Square. In those days, a doctor treated injuries and a pharmacist gave out drugs which were mostly alcohol or laxatives. Most thought that what one didn't cure the other would remove. Another two common ingredients were opium and heroin. One of the first pharmacists at Tyson Drug Company told of seeing Civil War vets with limbs missing, sitting on benches on the Courthouse lawn sipping from small bottles until they would pass out and fall to the grass. No one bothered them and they would later get up and sit back down to continue their "treatment". The telegraph was in the rear of the store and on election nights, or any other importan