Perry Hays’ Ten Mile Store, Ten Mile, MO
Perry Hays’ Ten Mile Store and Filling Station; junction of Macon County Roads DD and K north of US Highway 36; Ten Mile, Missouri; 1977. Photo courtesy of the Macon Public Library Haye’s 10 Mile, May 2017 Perry Hays’ 10 Mile store, unknown date
Newburg General Store, Newburg, MO
Newburg General Store and Sinclair Filling Station, 1955. The Sinclair HC gas pump appears to be a Bennett 76 manufactured in the 1930s. The Newburg community was six miles west of LaPlata and once called Polkville. There is also a town named Newburg in Phelps County, Missouri. Photo courtesy of Danette Miller.
Love Lake General Store, Love Lake, MO
Love Lake General Store and Filling Station, Love Lake, Missouri, 1955. The visible gas pump seen is typical of those manufactured from 1918 until the early 1930s. Love Lake was both a lake and an adjacent town five miles south of LaPlata named for James M. Love who founded the town in 1868 and erected […]
Marra’s General Store, Keota, MO
Marra’s Grocery Store and Filling Station; Keota, Missouri; 1955. Photo courtesy of Danette Miller. Horse-drawn Standard Oil Tanker Wagon, Keota, Missouri. Photo courtesy of the Macon County Historical Society. Rotilio Zuccarini Store and Filling Station, Keota, Missouri, circa 1920.
Hart General Store, Hart, MO
Hart General Store and Filling Station, Hart, Missouri, circa 1950. A well-armed Ruth Standley is shown tending a puppy. Photo courtesy of Ben Mendenhall. Hart General Store and Standard Service Station, Hart, Missouri, circa 1950. A Hart is approximately seven miles northwest of New Cambria. Henry Wright was operator of the first store […]
Barnesville Store, Atlanta, MO
Barnesville Store, Filling Station and Post Office, built about 1905, five miles west of Atlanta, circa 1930. Originally founded sometime prior to 1884 by Ovias Barnes who purchased the land from Abram Still, A.T. Still’s father, whose original land claim included Macon County’s Independence Township.
Wright’s Grocery Store, College Mound, MO
Wright’s Grocery Store and Sinclair Filling Station, looking east, College Mound, Missouri, 1942. Pictured left to right are Betty Watkins, Waldo Hendricks and Dorothy Gipson. Photo courtesy of Daisy Tabor.
W Malone & S Wentz, Macon, MO
Kohl’s West End Grocery and gas station, northwest corner of West Malone and South Wentz Streets, looking east, circa 1950. Long before modern convenience stores, this popular neighborhood store carried a wide variety of groceries, produce and farm supplies, had Shell gasoline and kerosene pumps and even boasted a fresh meat counter. George Kohl bought […]