BENTONVILLE, Ark. —Two doors from the first store owned by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have been donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington and The Wal-Mart Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the doors from Walton’s first shop were donated by the family of Gene Ivy, co-owner of Ivy Brothers Construction, which renovated the store in Newport, Arkansas, in the 1960s.

Alan Dranow, Wal-Mart Heritage Group’s senior director, says the doors are a great find because nothing else was kept from the first shop owned by the man who started the world’s largest retailer.

—From news services

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