FORBUS GENERAL STORE

Forbus General Store
#69 on the Top Secret Tennessee Parkway

3902 North York Hwy., Pall Mall, TN
Saturday February 1, 2014

Free to enjoy!!!!

Tony and I was traveling down TN-127S towards Pall Mall, TN to see the York Grist Mill at the Sergeant Alvin C. York Historical State Park.  We saw this wonderful store and decided to stop to check it out.

It is white, 2 story, established in 1892...122yrs ago; 
with long front porch and double doors opening into the past. Old dirty and dusty..a piece of heaven to me. There were several men standing on the porch enjoying the 60 degree weather, and they were very friendly when we pulled up. 

Once you walk through the front doors of the store, it is like stepping back in time..The double old doors serves as a portal to the past..
The smell of the wood burning pot belly stove in the back takes me immediately back to my youth at my great grandma's house back in West Virginia...I could stand there all day enjoying that smell...

The Forbus General Store was built by W. M. Johnson in 1892, and was operated by Johnson until his death in 1941. At one time, the store included a gas-powered gristmill, a blacksmith shop, and several granaries, but only the store stands today. The store purchased produce and furs from local residents, and at one point had a contract to supply locally-grown apples to a Pennsylvania brandy maker. The store in turn sold hardware, clothing, fertilizer and feed, school textbooks, guns, furniture, and caskets. The store's top floor was once used as a meeting place for anIndependent Order of Odd Fellows lodge. The Forbus post office operated out of the store until 1965, and consolidated with the Pall Mall post office in 1972.