A large complicated jigsaw puzzle in a window of the Maple Corner General Store entices customers and visitors alike to this busy center of activity in the village of Maple Corner.
Customers often pause in their shopping to add a piece or two.
Now under the ownership of Orville and Audrey Ennis, this country store has been open continuously since 1900, when the business was started by George Mann in nearby Kents Corner. With the ending of the stage coach route through Kents Corner, the population center moved to Maple Corner and, with it, the newly opened store. Sales slips, delivery records and account books from earlier days offer an interesting picture of the way business was conducted in country stores in those bygone times. Deliveries of customer orders, even at some distance from the store, were apparently common. After the Maple Corner Store burned in the early 1940s, the business was taken over by the Adamant Cooperative Store, and a new and modern building still in use at Maple Corner was constructed.