Well, 200 years from 1776 to 1976. Health above all! By using DeWitt nostrums, of course.
Anyway, Holston Pharmacy opened its Boone Street location in November, 1926, in the Bandy-Price Building (now Two Dad’s Restaurant) at Five Points (that’s now considered an old designation. It’s the intersection of Charlemont, Boone, East and West Sullivan and Cherokee Streets). The location was advertised as having a bright, all-glass store front with entrances facing Five Points, Sullivan and Charlemont. The owner/operator was Pharmacist W.D. Westmoreland. Holston Pharmacy then had locations on Broad Street, on the Bristol Highway and in Surgoinsville. I saw that at one time later on, the Pharmacy had a sales event featuring a special price on razor blades for Gillette razors…with a free styptic pencil. And, if you ever shaved with a Gillette razor, you darn sure needed a styptic pencil!
(note: a styptic pencil was a pencil-shaped stick of aluminum salts…it helped clot the blood when you nicked yourself with that terrible razor) (and you would…)