Burrows's Service Station / Cooper's Country Store
Burrows's Service Station
This significant cultural and architectural example of a 20th-century country store was built in 1937 by Theron Burrows (1910-1973) when U.S. Hwy. 521 was finished from Georgetown to Manning. A combination grocery and gas station with family living quarters on the second floor, it was affiliated with Esso (now Exxon) and had the motto "we serve the needs of the neighborhood."
Cooper's Country Store
Burrows's Service Station sold not only staple goods, fresh meat, and produce, but also clothing, farm supplies, hardware, feed and seed, and automotive products and parts. After Burrows died in 1973 his son-in-law George Cooper bought the business, renaming it "Cooper's Country Store;" it now boasts several second- and third-generation employees and customers.
Marker is at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue (State Highway 377) and U.S. 521, on the right when traveling east on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
