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| Map of Edwards and vicinity, with other historic stores shown (from ESRI ArcMap software) |
I have little any information about the store's history. Unlike the nearby Yates store, no one came by to chat on this quiet Sunday afternoon. The store had the long overhang typical of early gasoline stations. According to Tidbits and Treasures, written by Mary Landin, "Newman Plantation covered a large area around Newman, which is the crossroads of two historic county roads that did not used to have names. No Newmans ever lived on what is now Newman Road, because their homes face what is now called Canada Cross Roads. When the county named them, they named the one that the Newmans thought should have been named Newman Road, Canada Cross Roads, which is a misnomer in itself, and named the road that went to Edwards from Newman, Newman Road." Ms. Landin is a local historian and advocate of small-town living.
The store is locked and protected with bars, but I was able to take one photograph through the dusty glass.
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| Interior of abandoned Newman country store |
Look at the old cash register on the shelf in the lower left. And is that a hot water radiator on the far wall?
I took these photographs taken with a Panasonic G3 camera with 9-18mm Panasonic lens or a 1949-vintage Leitz 5 cm ƒ/2 Summitar lens. The Summitar lens has been in the family since my dad bought it new.
4 comments:
I visited the Newman Store many times in my childhood. Newmans' house was right across the road.
My great-grandmother lived in the house across the road. My mother was a Newman.
I went by the store in 1975-1976, many times when I lived there. It was already closed and abandoned.
I grow up in that area. I used to live on Newman. I have always wonder how the store looked in the inside. I have passed by it a thousand times.
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