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Photograph of Eggers and Company General Store
Photograph by Markkaempfer, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eggers and Company General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Eggers and Company General Store is a historic general store located at Farrar, Perry County, Missouri. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, frame building on a limestone foundation and clad in weatherboard.”

Wikipedia article Eggers and Company General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 19 PCR 32B, Farrar, 63746
  • When was it listed? June 2007
  • Category. building
  • Township. Salem township
  • National Register reference number. 07000570 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Eggers and Company General Store: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farrar, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1999Thunderstorm WindFarrar$25,000Severe thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees and knocked a shed off its foundation.
March 2025HailFarrar-Ping pong ball size hail fell in Farrar.

Every storm recorded in Perry County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mack's Chapel Cemetery4.9 miles2018
Christian A. Bergt Farm5.7 miles1980
Concordia Log Cabin College7.5 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry CountyAll 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.