229 North Main Street

World War II veteran and former the 321st US Army Infantry (A.K.A. Wildcats) Grover Bodenhamer owned and operated a general store at this location. According to the 1920 census, Grover now worked for his father as a salesman at the grocery store. Grover married Ida Angel in 1923, and just over a month after their wedding, Grover purchased a lot of land from his father on Armfield Street. In 1924 he purchased yet another lot, adjoining the first lot on Armfield street. The 1930 census listed Grover as a salesman at the grocery store. In 1935, he purchased the property and the store on Main Street. According to the 1940 census, Grover is listed as the proprietor of the grocery store, where he worked 70 hours per week! From the picture we have of the grocery store, Grover offered gasoline, hot sandwiches, cold drinks, cigarettes, and ice cream! Grover owned the property on Main Street until 1981. Today, H&R Block occupies the building that once housed Grover Bodenhamer’s Grocery Store.