Lenoir Store

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Lenoir Store | nrhp_type = | image = Lenoir Store.JPG | caption = | location = 3240 Horatio Road,<br />Horatio, South Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|34|1|17.1|N|80|34|5.0|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = South Carolina#USA | area = {{convert|1.2|acre}} | built = 1878 | architect = | architecture = wooden Vernacular architecture | added = July 3, 1997 | refnum = 97000744<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2010a}}</ref> }}

The '''Lenoir Store''' built in 1869 is an American historic general store building located in the High Hills of Santee community of Horatio, South Carolina.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | last = Richardson | first = Katherine H. |author2=Robert B. Bennett Jr | title = Lenoir Store | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = September 2, 1996 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/sumter/S10817743008/S10817743008.pdf | accessdate = 8 September 2012}}</ref><ref name = scdah>{{Cite web | title = Lenoir Store, Sumter County (3240 Horatio Rd., Horatio) | work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/sumter/S10817743008/index.htm | accessdate = 8 September 2012}}</ref> It stands on the same site where the Lenoir family has operated a general store since before 1808 and "is the oldest business establishment in Sumter County".<ref>* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/sumter/S10817743008/index.htm South Carolina Department of Archives and History file on Lenoir Store]</ref> Since 1900 it has served as the post office for Horatio Zip Code 29062. On July 3, 1997, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name = nris/> As of that date, it was still being operated by members of the Lenoir family.<ref name = nrhpinv/> Lenoir is pronounced le-nore or len-wa by some of its more northern members.

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== External links == * [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scsumter/places/places.html Names in Sumter District]

Category:Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Category:Buildings and structures in Sumter County, South Carolina Category:High Hills of Santee Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1878 Category:National Register of Historic Places in Sumter County, South Carolina