Oak Park was my first stop on a sunny Sunday afternoon drive around Madison County. I was on a country road surrounded by open farmland when I came across this old store and post office.
Around the turn of the century, this was known as Lacy's Store. In the past, it was common for the post office to be located inside a store, and in 1928, the Oak Park post office moved into Lacy's Store. The building burned in 1935 and was rebuilt on the original foundation.
In Arcadia Publishing Images of America series book Madison County (2011) there is a picture of the original Lacy's Store from around 1900.
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