Johnson Log Cabin Coffee Bin
Manufactured
in 1911 by the Columbia Can Company of St. Louis, Missouri, this
coffee bin was used in the Nail & Calico General Store at Drakes
Creek (Madison County) to store bulk coffee. The contents of the
store was sold to Knott's Berry Farm in California in the 1950s,
but the coffee bin was saved by storekeeper Minnie
Nail and placed in the Drakes Creek hotel.
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Nail
and Calico General Store, ca.1920. |
Minnie gave the coffee bin to her grandson Donald Harington in 1964. Harington took the bin to his home in Putney, Vermont, where he used it in his study to store manuscripts. He donated the coffee bin to the Shiloh Museum in 1983. |
