Inside the Wellwood Country Store

The Old Country Store and Wellwood

Master Sculptor Dee Moss

Nancy Jane Hall

Brooks & Anne Shaw

Posted September 26th, 2009

The Wellwood Country Store

is Open!

You're Invited to the Little Store That Could

(Jackson, TN) Sometimes a story comes full circle. So it is with the acquisition, move and restoration of the Wellwood Country Store now open and located next to Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village.  Founder Brooks Shaw worked at the historic 1925 building as a teenager and it inspired his love for country stores and Southern antiques.  It led to a collection of over 15,000 antiques on display since 1965 at Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Jackson today one of Tennessee's legendary attractions.

The Wellwood store moved in March to Casey Jones Village literally on the back of a large truck.  In the past six months it has undergone an extensive renovation and is now connected to the Old Country Store accessible by a breezeway in the gift shoppe. 

A ribbon cutting and reception is planned for Friday, October 9th at 11 am.  The public is invited to attend and guests from the Wellwood community are encouraged to bring mementos and photos of the store from days gone by.   An open house and reception will be held from 10:30 am to noon. 

(It was absolutely wonderful!) 


     The Store has important family ties for the Shaw family. Clark Shaw, 55, son of Old Country Store founder Brooks Clark Shaw, and now company CEO said, "For 15 to 20 years, it's been my dream to someday own the store and relocate it to the Village as a tribute to our father."

 The Wellwood Store is a classic rural Southern country store that is 52 feet long and 20 feet wide. It is filled with original antiques that are a part of the Shaw collection and authentic country store reproductions as a part of the gift shoppe. A portion of the building is the new studio of the world class artisan and master wood carver,  H. Dee Moss.  The building was decorated and set up by Nancy Jane Hall, Juanita Shaw's sister.

The Old Country Store was founded in 1965 as an antique museum by Brooks and Anne Shaw.

 Shaw concluded, "Dad was fond of saying, "I worked for 50 cents a day and all the hoop cheese I could eat." He added, "The store is also a tribute to the hardworking people of the Wellwood community where the store was a focal point of the rural West Tennessee community for many years."

Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store is located at 56 Casey Jones Lane in Jackson, Tennessee. The Old Country Store serves Southern food in its award winning restaurant and has a Gift Shoppe, an authentically recreated 1890's Ice Cream Parlor, "To Go" Market and private meeting rooms.