McDonough Adventure

Ever since seeing a photo of the McDonough General Store in McDonough, New York in Chenango County, I have wanted to go to McDonough to check it out.

Today was the day! Carol and I met in South New Berlin late in the morning. We headed towards McDonough. We stopped first at TOPS so Carol could get some dog food. We also thought we might have lunch at Millie's Diner in Norwich, so we stopped there. However, they were out of burgers, and it had that "greasy spoon" odor to it, so we decided to have lunch in McDonough.

We had a bit of a hard time finding McDonough, but after some backtracking and stopping to ask directions at a residence (that used to be a church) in East McDonough, we finally found it. The old store is right at the intersection, amidst many other old buildings.

We had lunch at the store (pizza panini sub and iced tea), and I bought a couple of postcards. I was allowed to take pictures and the two women working there answered our questions as best as they could. After that we drove around and I took several pictures of buildings and churches. The highlight was finding the old COOPER SHOP. If there wasn't so much snow on the ground, we would have liked to peek in the windows.

On the way back to Norwich, we drove through East Pharsalia and Preston. I stopped to take a few pictures in both towns. Here is a picture of the vacant store, gas station and post office in East Pharsalia.
I am not sure I will want to return to either of these towns, but I do want to return to McDonough.

We looked for an "ALWAYS" geocache in Norwich at WalMart, but we were not successful this time. Then we picked up a few sale items at Price Chopper and then headed back to South New Berlin, where I dropped Carol off before heading home.

mt entire set of pictures taken today can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juneny/sets/72157625959054845/