Pine Island

CHAPTER THREE
BUSINESS IN PINE ISLAND


The Pennington/Milam Store and Post Office

Almost all of the residents of Pine Island were either farmers when they came to Pine Island or they became farmers after they settled there. There were a few exceptions, but even the exceptions usually if not farming to some degree, at least had a large garden, chickens and a few cows.
One of the first exceptions to farming was Duncan D Robertson who owned the combination Prairie View post office and a small general store. It was located on the south east corner of "The Old Houston Highway" and Cochran road. The house with two bed rooms, a kitchen, dining room and a shed room was built of rough, unpainted lumber. .
The Store and post office section was remembered by James Elisha Pennington, John Wesley's son, as a twelve by twenty room attached to the northwest corner of the house making the building L shaped. .
Lucille (Milam) Daut, John Wesley's grand daughter, remembers that it was rou...