Gascozark Trading Post

30570 Highway AB, Gascozark, MO
Phone:

East < GO > West

In 1939 Dave Caldwell built Caldwell's Café & Court that included a cafe, store, gas station and four cabins. After that it became the Caldwell-Salsman Truck Stop. Rush and Virginia Johnson bought the store in the mid-50s and ran it until the mid-80s. Most recently it has been the Gascozark Trading Post & Flea Market.

It is just east of I-44 Exit 145 on Hwy. AB at Spring Rd.

GPS: 37.767273, -92.404136

Somewhere in time the main building has been so heavily remodeled and expanded as to bear almost no resemblance to its original appearance.

There are at least three duplex cabins behind the main building. That would be six units, but I'm not sure if there were originally four buildings or just these three.

This is one of the cabins that are lined up along a driveway behind the trading post.

The cabins all seem to be the same except that this one has a canopy over the entry doors.

This cabin is kind of hiding behind some green stuff.

When we've been there the sign on the building has said the Gascozark Store and the sign on the post has said Gascozark Trading Post Flea Market. Here's a larger view of the sign. The ruins of the Gascozark Cafe and Station can be found north side of the road.

Photo(s): 2012, 2017, 2018