The restored interior's wooden counters, pot belly stove, post office, kegs, bins and barrels, oiled wood floor, and pressed-metal ceiling recapture the atmosphere of a rural Pennsylvania store during a century of change.  During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the coming of the railroad and the development of the general store rapidly changed the tightly knit and largely self-sufficient farming communities.  Rural residents became dependent on the outside world for factory made merchandise.  Although dependent on factory goods from the cities, life in the country did not take on the hustle and bustle of city life.  The community continued to gather at the general store for the news of the day, and clerk and customer had time to chat over the weather or Sunday's church sermon.  However, the surging postwar world of the 1940's and 1950's, with the advent of the supermarket, brought an end to the era of the general store.