Cana Store and Post Office explained

Cana Store and Post Office
Location:NC 1411, 0.2 mi. N of NC 1406, near Mocksville, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.9733°N -80.5772°W
Built:c., 1930s
Builder:Cain, James Harrison
Added:October 5, 2001
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:01001073

Cana Store and Post Office is a historic general store and post office building located near Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina. It was built about 1875, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame building with a gable roof. The front facade features a broad hip-roofed frame canopy added in the 1930s that serves as a porte-cochere. Also on the property is a contributing one-story woodshed built in the 1930s. The building housed a post office until 1954 and a general store until 1965.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolyn Rich Hines and Nancy Pulliam Sullivan. Cana Store and Post Office. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . February 2001. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.