Corner Drug Store, 100 SW Barnard Street

Mrs. Mary E. Milam, the wife of physician Scott Milam, in 1880 purchased the lot where the Corner Drug Store stands for a princely sum of $500. This was a prime business location where the road north from Walnut Springs intercepted the east-west road connecting Cleburne and Stephenville. At least as early as 1883 newspaper advertisements document that Scott Milam had opened a pharmacy here to serve his medical practice, and the stone building shows up in the earliest photographs of the town. For fully a century a series of entrepreneurs operated drug stores inside these walls, which over the years were expanded and modified to the present form by the 1940s. These businesses provided more than just prescriptions, selling such goods as wallpaper, paint, jewelry, stationery, books and gift goods. The soda fountain was a favored hangout for teenagers during the 1940s and 1950s. Since the drugstore closed in the 1980s, the building has housed a variety of offices.