Horse medicine, school slates, eyeglasses, and flour were among the goods that might have been sold or traded in the log cabin store opened in 1853 by Felix Meighen and Robert Foster, boyhood friends from Pennsylvania. As the only store in Fillmore County, it did a thriving business and also served as a social center for the new town of Forestville. The stagecoach station stood just beyond the store, and the schoolhouse stood up the hill, where its foundation ruins remain. In 1856, Meighen and Foster built the present store from the first brick made in the county. Although Foster withdrew from the partnership in 1868, the Meighen family kept the store open until 1910. Some of the original trees still forest the Meighen homestead area, and the family set aside land about a mile past the store as a park and placed picnic tables for public use along the river bank. The Meighen store, complete with its 1910 inventory of merchandise, is now part of Forestville State Park, which includes more than 2,000 acres.