Aldrich Coal Mine Museum

This room in the Aldrich Coal Mine Museum in Montevallo recreates the Aldrich company store and commissary typical of company mining towns. The museum is the project of Henry Emfinger, whose father worked in the Aldrich mine in the 1940s.

Historic commissary at the Aldrich Mining Museum in Alabama
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
Historic commissary at the Aldrich Mining Museum in Alabama