This building is located on its original site at Perdue Hill and was built in 1895 as a doctor’s office. William S. Moore, a local landowner and businessman, enlarged the building in 1927-28 to be used as a general country store. The building was donated to the Perdue Hill-Claiborne Foundation in 1987 by Mrs. T. Wills Moore of Monroeville, AL.
This building is a good example of nineteenth century commercial architecture in rural Alabama and particularly the general country store which was for years a common site throughout the South. Inside is merchandise that is typical of what would have been sold pre-1950s – from canned goods to household items to farming equipment. In the office at the back of the store are ledgers dating from 1927 – 1950 cataloging what people bought and charged to their accounts which provides examples of the daily lives of people and prices of merchandise at this time.
This building is located beside Highway 84 at the intersection of Highway 84 and County Road 1 at Perdue Hill (GPS coordinates 31.516833,-87.496389).
Source: Perdue Hill-Claiborne Foundation.