The General Store building, c. 1885, got renovated in 1975 as a residence after the arson of the Rozier House across the street. Originally a store in the front half, it also had its own blacksmith and a forge with a small stable in the rear.

The previous company store was destroyed by tornado. The Valle Mining Company voted to rebuild the store for William H. Bunt, proprietor whose very large family operated it for years, as well as the Boarding House, and the school.

Here is where miners, farmers and townspeople came to purchase or trade goods, some weekly, some monthly. They settled their accounts when their crops sold or their mines hit paydirt.

Miners, after registering their claims on the property at the Paymaster's Shack, purchased tools and blasting powder (and later dynamite) at the Company Store. While the Company weighed the lead ore and bought it, others like Baker's, Carter's (by the Railroad Tunnel), Eaton's, and Tarpley's Store down the street accepted it as well. Lead was considered a currency of sorts and was carried and traded, not unlike aluminum cans today, bought for a few cents less than it could be sold for to the Company. DD Frazier recalled that, "Baker's and some others advertised they paid a penny more but their scale was so off that you actually did better at the Company."