Campbellsburg welcomed a new business last month in an old familiar place to many of the residents of the city. The Homestead Antiques and Old Time Market opened in the Campbellsburg Main Street city center last month, bringing back the bustle of business in a building long without it.
Store owner Cara Long opened the antiques business in Campbellsburg after her mother Linda Johnson decided to sell her Homestead Antiques shop in Carrollton in April. While the new Homestead Antiques sells many of the primitives, country and farmhouse items that the other Homestead store did, Long said most of the items in Campbellsburg are new to the Campbellsburg location.
“We have all tools, stoneware, furniture,” she said. “We have a mix of everything.”
The store also has a lot of experience in the antiques business. Beside Long and her mother, Vivian Ebley brings her 25 years of experience as an antiques vendor to the store and has her own booth there.
The store further enhances the antiquing experience with its lofty and bright, two-floor interior complete with historic Campbellsburg scenes portrayed prominently high upon the store walls. The renovated store provides a stark contrast to its design when the building housed a pharmacy and Tru Value hardware store about a decade ago. Campbellsburg councilwoman Aubrey Gosman said the walls of the store back then featured wood paneling throughout the interior and housed everything from nuts and bolts to plumbing supplies where antiques now occupy the second floor.
“I worked all the way through high school and all the way through college here,” said Gosman.
She believes The Homestead Antiques and Old Time Market is a perfect fit for the Campbellsburg.
“It should do really well here because this is just the kind of aesthetic of the people around here,” she said.
Mayor David Gray said during the last Campbellsburg city council meeting that a prior commitment prevented him from attending the ribbon cutting for the store last week, but councilman Bill Brown conveyed the city’s appreciation for the store.
“We’re excited to have new businesses here,” he said. “We want people to be involved with their community. We want to make Campbellsburg what it used to be.”
The former pharmacy, hardware store and even farm supply store that once were housed in the building in past decades might not be coming back, but The Homestead Antiques and Old Time Market offers many sights and the feel of what was.
The store is opened Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The store is closed on Monday and Tuesday.