Est. 1954 • Tabor City, North Carolina
For decades, Jones Stores felt like the hometown store in communities across the Carolinas. This archive exists to preserve the store history, photographs, and everyday memories people still carry, and to invite more stories in before they are lost.
Store History
A growing public record of store locations, milestones, photographs, and the people who kept Jones Stores part of daily life.
Community Memory
Former employees, customers, neighbors, and families can help fill in the story with the details only they remember.
Built to Grow
If you have a photo, story, store location, or small detail, your contribution can help make the memorial fuller and more accurate.
1954
The first Jones Stores location opened in Tabor City
40+
Locations across North and South Carolina at peak
10
Store towns mapped so far in the growing public archive
9
Key milestones already preserving the Jones Stores story
About the Site
Jones Stores was part of ordinary life for a lot of Carolina families and small towns. This site brings together surviving photographs, store locations, store history, and public memories, while inviting more people to send in what they have so the memorial can keep growing.
Store History
A record of the people, places, and milestones behind Jones Stores and J&C Wholesale Co.
Community Memories
Stories, photographs, and recollections from relatives, former employees, customers, and neighbors who can help deepen the public record.
Store Legacy
The signs, photographs, store locations, and shared memories that still define what Jones Stores meant across the Carolinas.
Collected voices
“I didn't know this man, but I have acquired a small black box inscribed with Rev. J.P. Jones. Inside it has the small glass cups for an individual or personal communion. If any one in his family would like to have it, I would be happy to send it to you.”
Lisa
“Prayers for the Jones family. Blessed with many fond memories.”
Pansy M. Walker and Brad Walker
“Darlene and family, met Preacher Jones several times while he pastored the church in Bladenboro and he was always the same every time I met him. As God has blessed him with a long productive life, my is that God will do the same for every member of the family. Thank God there is a heaven, we shall meet again. Love you folks.”
G C & Linda Bryan
What’s Here
This memorial already holds photographs, store locations, timeline milestones, and community memories, and it is meant to grow as more people share what they remember.
