Off IL 108, Hagaman, Illinois. County/parish: Macoupin.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 12, 1980. NRIS 80001386.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The J. L. Robinson General Store is a historic general store located on Hagaman Road in Hagaman, Macoupin County, Illinois. Railroad worker Charles Crossland Robinson opened the store in 1881; his son James Leo Robinson took over the store upon his father's death, giving it its current name. The store was the primary supplier of household and farming supplies in Western Mound Township and the Hagaman and Chesterfield areas. In addition, the building served as the township's post office, a railway express office for Macoupin County's two railroads, and the local Democratic Party headquarters. The store was also the first building in the area to receive electricity and telephone service. It is now the only surviving building in the area built before 1900.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1980.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893517