Ellen Bohannon, left, and Jeanne Scoggins stand in front of 234 Cove during the store’s opening week.234 Cove is both an address and a store, and for Jeanne Scoggins and Ellen Bohannon, it has a history that both cherish.
“When we were growing up we’d go down to the store just for fun,” said Scoggins. “My grandfather built it in 1932, and my mom and dad operated a grocery store there for years. My sister and I are retired and the building was unoccupied, so we decided to do something with it.”
She and Bohannon turned the location, which has been numerous things throughout its nearly century-old life, into a resale shop with assistance from their daughters and extended families. Gas and groceries are some of the previous things sold there, and the store was even a recycling center at one point. Now, it is an outlet for Scoggins and Bohannon to get some value out of everything they’ve collected over the years as well as a way to stay busy and relive their history with the store.
“Our families just have a lot of things we don’t need anymore – furniture, glassware, clothing, but we’ve got just a little bit of everything,” Scoggins said. “It’s all family business; we’re not doing consignment right now. We’ve got nine families contributing to the goods in the store, so it’s definitely a collective effort.”
Business has been good, she said, but the sisters are happy just to be operating the location that they grew up around.