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I used to love coming to this store. I hope that it can be turned around and utilized!

Re: Comment by Anonymous at 08:48 AM on 09/01/2009:
This building has a significant history for the Hickory Flat Community.

Last corner of the area that is recognizable pre-strip mall.

The Hickory Flat community is overflowing with new, modern shopping facilities. Keep a bit of history, please.

I believe in renovation of old buildings it adds more character to our community.

Pretty much the only history left in Hickory Flat.

Because it defines Hickory Flat just like the Big Chicken defines Marietta.

Maybe architects could design plans to constuct a "welcome center" or even a store on that corner.

It would be nice to have some history of Hickory Flat left. I think a welcome center would be great.

i would rather see the building saved then have another pharmacy show up on that corner.

This property is the only 'landmark' left at that intersection. It could be a great location for a small business such as a satellite real estate office or farmer's market...... and it is the only building in the area that suggests what once was Hickory Flat.

It's not very pretty and it's fairly new but it is the replacement building for an original which had a second floor in which my grandfather was accidently shot and killed.

This building has always been in my life. I would hate to see this landmark destroyed.

This is Hickory Flat I think it should stay to keep city in tack. marell w

These old buildings are almost ALWAYS worth saving. This is a nutty little gas station that deserves our respect.

This is out in front of the whole community and I think it is very important for all to remember.

Would love to see this place turned around and made useful again.

Having lived in the Hickory Flat Community for more than 20 years, I have witnessed the demolition of several historic buildings in the area.

At the intersection of Hwy. 140 and East Cherokee Drive, I've seen the county's original court house (and old boy scout lodge) and a turn of the century home across the street simply bull- dozed.

Unfortunately, the philosophy of government and local officials is that progress is good - that is - a good source of tax revenue. Old, historic buildings are expendable, too much trouble, not worth the expense to preserve. Strip shopping centers and Super Walmarts are better for the local tax base...

Isn't it nice that our European neighbors don't take that same attitude? Visiting Europe, you experience ancient towns filled with beautifully and lovingly preserved and centuries old homes, churches, schools and public buildings.

We could learn a thing or two...

It is all we have still standing in the Hickory Flat area. Please restore and keep our past from being gone for ever.

I enjoy seeing one vestige of the original Hickory Flat area as I drive my son to preschool. That intersection is 3/4s development ~ please restore this one!

I think that it's very important to cherish buildings from the past and using them as an integral part of our community. By using and preserving what we already have, we stop the proliferation of strip malls and "bog box" stores that are littering our county.

I grew up in Hickory Flat and this store is a landmark. Very sad to see it possibly go away. Like so many other things in my previously small hometown.

Grew up with it.

I am afraid this site will be bought by a developer and torn down. Would like it restored to its original glory and utilized for community.

I worked there and my father-in-law laid the corner stone. I would love to see the building made into a visitors center with the upstairs a museum of memorabilia of the community.

My dad laid cornerstone for the upstairs Lodge Hall.

Would love to see it made into a welcome center.

My dad caught school bus there for Canton. High

I grew up here and my Uncle ran the store

To remove the store will remove a part of my life

The building is a landmark for giving directions

This is a landmark as I grew up nearby.

I would love to see a visitor center here. Such a great location with so many subdivisions nearby.

A great place for a mini-chamber of commerce to help boast the businesses nearby and add additional job opportunities.

I would think a location this notorious should be saved.It identifies a noteworthy spot in the county &is known throughout Georgia.

This building identifies a location of many notorious individuals who contributed much to the community and county.

How does one know where where they are going, if they dont know where they came from. It's the hub of that community, leave it. It can/will outlast all the new styrofoam & particle board structures built around it. It should be turned into a farmers market/resturant. Just keep it dry and it will go 50 more like it is. Poverty preserves by god!

Because Hickory Flat is where my girls grew up and mine and my husbands "home".

With the amount of development around the store, it would be nice to preserve some of the past.

While this building does not stand out architecturally from the period, it is the centerpiece of the Hickory Flat community. If this building is lost, the community will have no identity other than just another suburban locale. I think it should be saved in the same fashion that the Lost Mountain Store was saved...incorporated into a development instead of demolished.

I think this site should be preserved.

It's right in the heart of Hickory Flat and the only thing historic at that intersection. I love the idea of a post office there -- something we in Hickory Flat really need!

I live in the Hickory Flat Community

Beautiful old building. Take off the newer additions and restore to it's original state. The possibile uses are endless...

We live near this intersection and it would be difficult to see the last remaining remnant of old Hickory Flat removed. This building was built to last, unlike the throw-away buildings of the strip malls of Hickory Flat Crossing and the stucco monstrosity of CVS. Please save this one.

Re: Comment by Anonymous at 10:14 PM on 09/29/2009:
If this is torn down, where will the cute girls who sell pizzas out of the portable pizza kitchen go?

I grew up in Midway (Northlake Mall)-nothing left now. We need to save this!

I grew up just south of Hickory Flat and that store is iconic of where the community came from. It stands out from all the commercial development as a legacy and should be preserved.

This is the last remaining piece of "history" in Hickory Flat, it'd be a shame to see it torn down when we have a chance to "recycle" it by giving it a new use.

i'm in Cherokee co all the time to see my horses and lived there for 2 years. Hope you will leave some character and history. They ruined Alpharetta and Cherokee Co has been on track to do the same.

please don't plow it under. We need something to remind us that Hickory flat was once quaint and beaucolic

I grew up in Hickory Flat and remeber going to Hickory Flat Store as a kid. I remeber everything about it from the layout to the people who worked there. I would be so sad to see it torn down!!

Use to see the old timers sitting on benches and drinking coffee

Special to my family as I worked there and was operated by my 'Aunt and Uncle

I grew up in the community and this is the one place from which directions were most often given.

I would miss such a distinguished landmark where I grew up.

The building deserves better care than it's getting.

I like it.

Lived nearby and would miss it a lot.

My Aunt and Uncle ran the store . I want it saved.

Not for looks but a great way to attract attention when giving road directions. The only two story commercial building in the community

I lived within 1/2 mile of the store and it means much to me.

Having grown up nearby, I will miss it greatly.

A prize building for giving directions

My relatives lived nearby and I will miss it.

My Granddad worked there and this woulld be something to remember about him.

A great landmark

I have known this area all my life and many memories I recall about the building and the one preceeding it

The location is so desirable for a visitor center and a mini chamber of commerce to help locate residents (also businesses) in the area and maybe a historical museum upstairs.

Re: Comment by Anonymous at 04:41 PM on 10/15/2009:
Go to city council meetings, find out who the owner is and start seeing what his/her plans regarding the building are.

Also, check out the Main Street program (www.mainstreet.org), which gives suggestions on how to save old buildings and rehabilitate them. It gives some great arguments on how to persuade city councils and city planners that keeping the historic buildings brings more of a sense of history and cuts costs. Saving an old building and restoring it WAY cheaper than building a completely new one.

Re: Comment by Anonymous at 09:04 PM on 09/07/2009:
That's right, when you give directions it turn at Hickory Flat Store, not CVS or Walgreens.

Re: Comment by Anonymous at 05:14 PM on 09/10/2009:
Reading these posts have brought tears to my eyes remembering things that my children and grandchildren will never have the awesome privelige of seeing because it was more important to put in a gas station or a grocery store than to treasure our history. Its good to move forward and think to the future least we not forget and ignore our past.

Re: Comment by Steve L at 10:23 PM on 09/09/2009:
I agree 100%. I have lived in the area only for a few years. I have watched this building, hoping for someone to buy it and rennovate it. If I had the resources, I would do it myself!

Re: Comment by Anonymous at 08:48 AM on 09/01/2009:
What a joke! Trying to drum up support for this after the community let the Quarles House be demolished. Sad, really.