Category Archives: Stores

-Georgia, Black History, National Register of Historic Places, Stores

Community Cooperative Store-Log Cabin Community, Georgia

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The Log Cabin Community, also known as Springfield, did not have a store until the 1930s. The store was run as a community cooperative. It was also a community gathering spot. To the right of the store, once stood a cafeteria that fed schoolchildren who attended the school across the street. While built before the Rosenwald era, the school applied for and received additional funding from the Rosenwald Fund to improve upon and expand the school.

It is a contributing property to the Camilla-Zack Community Center Historic District.

-Georgia, Stores

Swainsboro Ice Fuel Company-Swainsboro, Georgia

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Art Deco can be hard to find in more rural areas. This building started as the Swainsboro Ice & Fuel Company and has evolved over the years. It’s now storage.

-Tennessee, National Register of Historic Places, Stores

Trew General Merchandise Store-Dentville, Tennessee

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Trew General Merchandise opened in 1890. Located on the Polk and McMinn County lines, the store was opened by John Wesley Trew. The store closed in 1996. The store stayed in the Trew family for its 106 years.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

-South Carolina, Stores

Store Fronts-Troy, South Carolina

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-South Carolina, Stores

Abbeville Arsenal and Dendy’s Store-Abbeville, South Carolina

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This home has a long, varied history in Abbeville that had been lost to history until Tim Drake purchased the home to restore it. To his surprise, he found 1791 etched into one of the beams. This discovery sent him down a rabbit hole where he determined that this building was initially one of three arsenals built in South Carolina during Governor Moultrie’s administration. Located on the town’s square, it was a place to store munitions until 1836.

It was then decommissioned and purchased by Charles Dendy, where it was a store until the 1850s. Sometime in the late 1800s, the building was moved to its current location at the corner of Cherry and Henry M. Turner streets.

Once it was moved, the building served as a private residence.

-Georgia, Stores

Yow-Cooper-Meir Store Fronts-Avalon, Georgia

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Built in approximately 1880, this commercial building once contained a bank and stores.