Hicks & Cobb General Merchandise Store

The townsite of Medicine Mound had long been a thriving village when brothers-in-law Lon L. Cobb and Ira Lee Hicks arrived in the area with their families in 1927 and opened a general merchandise store. The store sold such items as work clothes and clothing material, shoes, cotton sacks, groceries and horse feed. Regular customers warmed themselves by the fire in winter, indulging in conversation and checkers. In 1933 a fire all but destroyed the townsite, but Hicks and Cobb rebuilt that year with round granite cobblestones from Oklahoma. Lon L. Cobb died in 1942. Hicks carried on and the store was among the last businesses to serve area residents and migrant agricultural workers. Ira Lee Hicks died in 1966; the structure became a community gathering place and a Medicine Mound museum. (1999)

Hicks & Cobb General Merchandise Store is a historical marker in Medicine Mound, Hardeman County, dedicated in 1999. It is one of 13 historical markers documented in Hardeman County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 20 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 34.1872, -99.5947 near Medicine Mound. The nearest cataloged historic site is Medicine Mound Community (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include W. P. A. Sanitation Project, Big Valley Cemetery, and Old Mounds Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5197011927. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.