Photos of the Cumberland General Store in November 2004 just before it closed. Interior photos too.

"Goods in endless variety for man and beast," was the motto for the longtime Cumberland County business known as the Cumberland General Store. 

The Cumberland General Store at Homestead

Near the end of 2004, the store closed its retail outlet and mail-order operation in Crossville Tennessee at the junction of Highway 127 and 68 in the Homestead community. 

The store carried a unique product line that included products that would have been used in an earlier time and was a popular tourist stop in Cumberland County.  With a mail-order catalog that looked more like an early Sears and Roebuck catalog, the store did a booming business from that angle as well.  Reports were that many set designers for the movie industry used the business when they worked on sets for period films.

Interior of the Cumberland General Store and customers

checking out with their purchases.

Photo from the rear of the store looking to the front

Many still miss the business and the location shown in these photos was used as a restaurant briefly after the store closed and the property was purchased by the Tennessee Department of Transportation as part of plans to widen Highway 127 from Crossville to the Cumberland Mountain State Park.  That project remains in the planning stages.

Customers enjoyed the front porch of the 

Cumberland General Store.