Old Country Store Wins Best Restaurant!
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Old Country Store Named Jackson's
Best Restaurant Five Years in a Row
( Jackson , TN ) For the fifth year in a row, Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store was named Jackson's Best Overall Restaurant. Casey Jones Village was honored in several categories at the Jackson Sun Readers’ Choice Awards reception held at the Aeneas Building in downtown Jackson Thursday, March 12th. Casey Jones Village was voted Best Local Attraction for 2009 having received that distinction every year of the competition. In addition to "Best Overall Restaurant", the Old Country Store also won “Best Southern’ Cookin".
Readers of the Jackson Sun newspaper annually vote on their favorite local and area businesses in a number of categories with the winners formally announced at the reception. Categories include Entertainment, Food, Medical, Retail, Media and Services.
The Old Country Store was founded in April of 1965 by the late Brooks C. Shaw and Anne Shaw as an antique museum and grew into a restaurant due to the popularity of its small lunch counter that served classic Southern fare. The company CEO is T. Clark Shaw, son of the founders. Deborah Shaw Laman, daughter of Brooks and Anne Shaw and company vice president and marketing director, said, “We are so thankful to the Jackson and West Tennessee community who has supported us since we opened in 1965. It's a joy to do what we do and we appreciate the opportunity to be an ongoing part of the fabric of Jackson, Tennessee.”
Casey Jones Village is also is the home of the Historic Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum that is currently undergoing a major expansion set to open this summer. Casey Jones Village is located in Jackson on the Highway 45 By-pass off Interstate 40 exit 80A and is annually named one of the Top 10 Travel Attractions in the state of Tennessee. The website is www.caseyjones.com .
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