Cana Store and Post Office

Cana Store and Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	NC 1411, 0.2 mi. N of NC 1406, near Mocksville, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°58′24″N80°34′38″W / 35.97333°N 80.57722°W / 35.97333; -80.57722
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1875 (1875), 1930s
Built by	Cain, James Harrison
NRHP reference No.	01001073 [1]
Added to NRHP	October 5, 2001

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. ^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Carolyn Rich Hines and Nancy Pulliam Sullivan (February 2001). "Cana Store and Post Office" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved October 1, 2014.