This is about as authentic an old grocery store as you’ll find anywhere.
Located a mile or so from Commerce, it was likely “out in the country” when it was open.
J. M. Crawford & Son Grocery Store, Commerce
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Roadside Grocery, Madison County
Last known as 98 Grocery, this is now a car wash as best I can tell.
Meansville Bank, 1911
Built as a bank, this abandoned structure was more recently home to Cochran’s Grocery. The officers of the bank, when it was established in August 1911, were: President, U. L. Taylor; Vice-President, J. W. Holloway; Cashier, Grady Langford; and Bookkeeper, George Smith.
Jones Grocery, Pike County
This well-maintained roadside grocery store is located between Lifsey Springs and Molena.
C. R. Giles Groceries, Washington County
This iconic country store on Deepstep Road was established at Giles Crossroads in 1922.
Bernie’s Sign, Bellville
If you know Bellville, you know Bernie’s. It’s a genuine old-school grocery store with no pretense. Where else can you get a fishing pole with your fresh ground chuck?
Blackwell Grocery, Mansfield
It’s not very often that I find a place like this. Blackwell Grocery, though, is the real deal. It’s a grocery store located in a hundred-year-old building in a small downtown, and it’s without pretense.
Today, most places like this are made to look old and sell specialty items that are more geared to tourists than normal folk. Not so Blackwell Grocery. For over thirty years they’ve been a staple in Mansfield but they plan on building in a new location soon.
I don’t know when I’ve seen hand-written signs in a grocery store. And there were just four aisles, if I recall correctly.
They don’t have as much as the big box stores, but they probably have anything you might need.
Commercial Block, Newborn
This early commercial block has housed a grocery store and, on the far right, the present-day post office.
Newborn Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Godfrey, Georgia
A marker placed by Morgan County in celebration of their bicentennial in 2007 reads: The town of Godfrey was incorporated by the Georgia Legislature on July 25, 1906. However, this community has much older roots. Local lore places the earliest geographical reference to a community in this area called Hamburg. By the early 1800s the community was known as Antioch for the original Antioch church built there around 1809. By 1839 the area was known as Evansville, perhaps for a local academy that existed there. One of the earliest industries in the area was a grist mill known as Walton’s Mill, operated by the Walton Family. Fire destroyed it around 1950. Mary Perkins Walton, a descendant of the Walton Family, married Dr. James Ervine Godfrey, a former Confederate surgeon. Dr. and Mrs. Godfrey acquired land in this area through her family and owned a plantation called Egypt. For a time, this community was identified with this plantation, and was called Egypt. The community was later named after Dr. Godfrey when the post office opened in the late 1800s. By 1867 two Baptist churches and one Methodist church had been established. The first school was established in the early 1900s. At its peak the town included eight stores, a bank, barber shop, livery stable, icehouse, cotton gin, warehouse, peach shed, railroad depot, post office, and Walton’s Mill. Godfrey depended on the Central of Georgia Railroad for passenger service, mail service and transportation of commodities.
Pollock Store, Early County
Although the sign identifies this business as D & D Grocery, Chloe Evans Holloway writes: It was Pollock Store in the 1960’s Then it was called Bruner’s Store because Bryon Bruner bought it and he ran it for a lot of years until he died. He lived in a small house with his second wife ,Nancy. Then Debra Robinson Love purchased it. She ran it for a short time before it went out of business! Now there is nothing there at all.