Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office in Evinston, Florida

Visitors to this 1882 general store-cum-post office might wonder if they’ve arrived at a tourist attraction—or some fantasy of Old Florida as it looked when writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived less than 10 miles from this sleepy, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it town off US-441. Boxes of vintage detergent and canned goods from the 1940s line shelves in an interior virtually unchanged from 1933, when Frederick W. Wood and Paul C. Swink bought the place. Swink sold his shares in the store less than two years later, but the name stuck. Wood went on…

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