In the last article, we looked at an abandoned store at the junction of Newman and Canada Cross Roads. Proceed east a few miles on Canada Cross Road and you get to the intersection with Middle Road. This is the site of the Willis Store.
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| Country stores in Edwards, Mississippi |
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| Willis Store, corner of Canada Cross and Middle Roads, Edwards, Mississippi. |
The building is in reasonably good condition and has modern lighting. But the price in the gasoline pump shows an older era.
This gasoline pump was last used when gasoline was $1.249/gallon, even though the "1" in the leftmost window is no longer visible. If it was 24 cents/gallon, that would date this pump to the mid-1960s, a couple decades too old. My friend remembered the business as active in the early 1980s. Also, he told me that there was another old store in the woods south of the intersection, but the woods were thick, and I saw no remnants.
Jax Beer was brewed by the Jackson Brewery of New Orleans. Prior to 1956, it was brewed by the Jax Brewing Company of Jacksonville, Florida.
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| Historic home on Bill Strong Road, Edwards. |
If you continue east, the road becomes Bill Strong Road. About a mile east is a handsome historic house with six pillars. The house may be unoccupied, but a cat crossed the porch, and just to the right, and couple of curious cows watched me.
The first three photographs were taken with a Fuji X-E1 digital camera and the 27 mm f/2.8 lens. The old house was with a Panasonic G3 camera and 20 mm f/1.7 lens. The black and white frames were reprocessed with PhotoNinja software.
