Fishin' at Braden Station Traditional Cache
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Fishin' at Braden Station
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Braden Station is located in the C.T. McCraw building located on Highway 59, between I-40 and Highway 70 in Braden, Tennessee.
The C.T McCraw Company began operation in 1881 and was located across the road from where Braden Station is now. As the C.T. McCraw business grew, a cotton gin and sawmill was added. In 1908, the C.T. McCraw building was built and served as the community's general store, hardware store, post office and bank. The C.T. McCraw Company was a cotton merchant business as well.
The first floor of the building housed the general store, the local post office and the bank while cotton grading and buying operations took place on the second floor. The bank was located in the mezzanine area of the building where the original safe is still in place. Also, the McCraw building boasts the first elevator in Fayette County which goes from the basement to the second floor.
A small brick building located behind the main building was used to produce acetylene gas used to illuminate the building in place of electricity.
In 1994, the general store closed operation and auctioned its inventory. In 2002, the building was purchased by its current owners and, in March of that year, renovation of the building began. The shelves and the floors are original to the building.
To dispel the myths, the C.T. McCraw building was neither a hotel nor a train depot. The train depot was located across the tracks from thr C.T. McCraw building. The name Braden Station was provided by a passerby that suggested the name during the building's renovation.
This cache is placed to draw attention to this historic building and the role that it played in the development of northwest Fayette County in the early twentieth century.
THE CACHE:
You're looking for a pill fob located behind the building.
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