The Wellwood Country Store is Open!
Posted by Deborah at 9/23/2009 11:03 AM 
Categories: To Go,In the News,In the Village,Old Country Store,Casey Jones Museum,Events
Categories: To Go,In the News,In the Village,Old Country Store,Casey Jones Museum,Events
The Latest on Wellwood. Come see the phenomenal renovation and Dee Moss's new studio soon:
The Wellwood Country Store is Open!
The Little Store That Could
(Jackson, TN) Sometimes a story comes full circle. So it is with the acquisition, move and restoration of the Wellwood Country Store now open and located 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 it inspired his love for country stores and 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 today one of Tennessee's legendary attractions.
The Wellwood store was moved in March to Casey Jones Village literally on the back of a large truck. In the past six months it has undergone an extensive renovation and now is connected to the Old Country Store accessible by a breezeway in the gift shoppe.
A ribbon cutting and reception is planned for Friday, October 9th at 11 am. The public is invited and the Wellwood community is encouraged to bring and share any mementos they have of visiting the store when it was in
operation.
The Store has important family ties for the Shaw family. Clark Shaw, 55, son of Old Country Store founder Brooks Shaw, and now 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 it inspired. 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 are 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. 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 it looked like at that time."
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 has over 700 square feet of space created to look much like it did when Shaw worked there. It is filled with hundreds of original antiques that are a part of the Shaw collection and authentic country store reproductions items as would have been found from the 1930's back to the 1880's. A portion of the building is the new studio of the world class artisan and master wood carver, H. Dee Moss. The building was decorated and set up by Nancy Jane Hall, Juanita Shaw's sister.
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. Mr. Shaw passed away in 1971 at the age of 46 of heart disease.
Shaw explained, "Our goal was 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 is also a tribute to the hardworking people of the Wellwood community where the store 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.
The Wellwood Country Store is Open!
The Little Store That Could
(Jackson, TN) Sometimes a story comes full circle. So it is with the acquisition, move and restoration of the Wellwood Country Store now open and located 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 it inspired his love for country stores and 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 today one of Tennessee's legendary attractions.
The Wellwood store was moved in March to Casey Jones Village literally on the back of a large truck. In the past six months it has undergone an extensive renovation and now is connected to the Old Country Store accessible by a breezeway in the gift shoppe.
A ribbon cutting and reception is planned for Friday, October 9th at 11 am. The public is invited and the Wellwood community is encouraged to bring and share any mementos they have of visiting the store when it was in
operation.
The Store has important family ties for the Shaw family. Clark Shaw, 55, son of Old Country Store founder Brooks Shaw, and now 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 it inspired. 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 are 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. 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 it looked like at that time."
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 has over 700 square feet of space created to look much like it did when Shaw worked there. It is filled with hundreds of original antiques that are a part of the Shaw collection and authentic country store reproductions items as would have been found from the 1930's back to the 1880's. A portion of the building is the new studio of the world class artisan and master wood carver, H. Dee Moss. The building was decorated and set up by Nancy Jane Hall, Juanita Shaw's sister.
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. Mr. Shaw passed away in 1971 at the age of 46 of heart disease.
Shaw explained, "Our goal was 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 is also a tribute to the hardworking people of the Wellwood community where the store 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.
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