Cana Store and Post Office
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Location | NC 1411, 0.2 mi. N of NC 1406, near Mocksville, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°58′24″N 80°34′38″W / 35.97333°N 80.57722°WCoordinates: 35°58′24″N 80°34′38″W / 35.97333°N 80.57722°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | c. 1875 | , 1930s
Built by | Cain, James Harrison |
NRHP Reference # | 01001073 |
Added to NRHP | October 5, 2001 |
Cana Store and Post Office is a historic general store and post office building located near Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina. It was built about 1875, and is a two-story, three bay, frame building with a gable roof. The front facade features a broad hip-roofed frame canopy added in the 1930s, that serves as a "porte cochere." Also on the property is a contributing one-story woodshed built in the 1930s. The building housed a post office until 1954 and a general store until 1965.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.