Posted March 11th:  The Wellwood Store has arrived!  Through rain, hail, sleet or snow we persevered and the Wellwood Store has come to town.  It was a sight to see today as the little country store that could made the twenty mile trek to its new home in Casey Jones Village.  See full story below...

Posted March 13th:  Enjoy the pictures!  
After we restore and renovate the Wellwood country store, we hope to have it open as an extension of the Old Country Store gift shoppe by Labor Day! 



Leaving the Wellwood Community



Approaching the railroad tracks on Highway 70 near the airport



Rounding the curve onto the Highway 45-Bypass at Airways (Hwy 70)



Coming down Casey Jones Lane to its new home!

Posted March 1st, 2009:
We are so excited about this story...read the press release below!

Historic Wellwood Country Store

Relocates to Casey Jones Village

(Jackson, TN) Sometimes a story comes full circle. So it is with the acquisition and move of the Wellwood Country Store next to Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village.  Founder Brooks Shaw worked at the historic 1925 building as a teenager and later inspired his love for Southern antiques.  It led to a collection of over 15,000 antiques on display since 1965 at Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Jackson that is today one of Tennessee's legendary landmarks.  Plans call for the Wellwood store to be moved to Casey Jones Village this next week.

     The Wellwood Store is a classic rural Southern country store.  It is a white wood frame shotgun style building that is 52 feet long and 20 feet wide. It was opened in 1925 by the Jesse Edwards family and operated almost continuously until 2001.  The country store has had a number of owners through the years but was acquired by its original owner's daughter, Dorris Joyner, and her husband, Floyd, who operated the store in their retirement years.  In its new home in Casey Jones Village, the Wellwood Store will be an extension of the Old Country Store Gift Shoppe with over 700 square feet of space created to look much like it did when Shaw worked there in the late 1930's and early 1940's as a young man.  It will be filled with hundreds of original antiques that are a part of the Shaw collection and authentic country store reproductions of items as would have been found from the 1930's back to the 1880's. A portion of the building will be the studio of master wood carver,  H. Dee Moss.

     The Old Country Store was founded in 1965 as an antique museum dedicated to Pop's Old Country Store and Mom's Home Cookin' by Brooks and Anne Shaw. His passion for collecting Southern antiques led to the opening of a museum as a tribute to country stores in the South. It is possibly one of the largest private antique collections in the country.  Mr. Shaw passed away in 1971 at the age of 46. 

     Clark Shaw, his son and company CEO said, "It's a dream come true to bring the store where my Dad worked as a boy to sit next to the Old Country Store that was inspired by it.  It really completes the story of the very store that led to his journey to collect antiques in the early 1960's. His doctor told him for health reasons to find a relaxing hobby ~ antiquing as it turned out ~ that led to the Old Country Store we know and love today. Now they will be side by side."

     Shaw continued, "For 15 to 20 years, it's been my dream to someday own the little store and relocate it to the Village as a tribute to our father, Brooks Clark Shaw.  When I shared this with Mrs. Joyner, she was very pleased and allowed us to buy the building giving the relocation her blessing.  Our cousins, Joy Carr Moss and Linda Carr Czigan, stopped there for years as children on their school bus stop. They helped us lay out the store with their vivid memories of what the store looked like at that time."

     Shaw explained, "Our goal is to lay out the Wellwood Country Store as close as possible to where everything was at the time my Dad worked there including the checker board, pot bellied stove, candy case, soda box, dry goods and hoop cheese." He concluded, "Dad was fond of saying, "I worked for 50 cents a day and all the hoop cheese I could eat." It's also a tribute to the hardworking people of the Wellwood community which was a focal point of the rural West Tennessee community for many years. We are honored to restore and preserve the Wellwood Store for future generations to enjoy."

      Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store is located at 56 Casey Jones Lane in Jackson, Tennessee. The Old Country Store serves Southern food in its award winning restaurant and has a Gift Shoppe, authentically recreated 1890's Ice Cream Parlor, "To Go" Market and private meeting rooms.