Drug Store

easy access to your dedicated Pharmacist and Pharmacy Team of professionals. The Drug Store opened as a drug firm at 108 South Broad Street in Thomasville, Georgia in 1869, four years after the Civil War ended and 41 years before the discovery of insulin. Times were very different then and most medicines (capsules, tablets, powders, ointments, crea... ms, syrups, elixirs, emulsions, and various other pharmaceutically elegant prescriptions) were compounded by the pharmacist. The Drug Store was purchased by Robert Thomas in 1881. W.R. Bill Thomas, Sr. joined the family business as a pharmacist, owning and operating The Drug Store until his death in 1935. Bill Thomas and Frank Eidson became the new owners and in 1945, until Mr. Thomas bought out Mr. Eidson and continued to operate the business with his two sons, W.R. Thomas, Jr. Bill and James A. Thomas Jim. In 1954, Bill Thomas, Jr. opened the second Thomasville location at 816 Gordon Avenue directly across from Archbold Medical Center. The Gordon Avenue store has the unique distinction of receiving the very first pharmacy permit issued by the State of Georgia - PHRE000001. Although both Thomasville stores have undergone several remodels, the original mosaic ceramic tile floor in the retail section of the Broad Street location remains along with old pictures, the large prescription books from the 1880s, various compounding equipment, balances and scales, an old triangular tin sign that marked the delivery bicycle frame, as well as old newspaper articles that celebrate the stores 50th and 100th birthdays. Since 1881, The Drug Store has been trusted by generations to fill millions of prescriptions. Among the many prescriptions are those for the late Duke and Duchess of Windsor, President William McKinley, Mamie Eisenhower and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis all of whom have been in the store on Broad Street. Being the oldest continuously operated pharmacy in the State of Georgia is steeped in history and has required The Drug Store to continually evolve to meet the ...Read More