The Oakland Plantantion store is the most important surviving structure for the interpretation of plantation life in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.  According to Ann Patton Malone, "the post-bellum rural merchant was all things to the community ... the store was the marketplace, banking and credit source, recreation center, public forum, and news exchange."  

      History of the Oakland-Prudhomme Store

      The time line of the Oakland-Prudhomme Store

     The Oakland-Prudhomme Store before the Civil War

     The Oakland-Prudhomme Store after the Civil War

     The collapse of the South's Economy

     Sharecropping

     The effect of the railroad 

     The Oakland-Prudhomme Store in the 20th Century