Built on this site in 1921, the business became a vital enterprise and local gathering place for African American residents of Town Creek and the surrounding rural communities. The Rev. O.C. Stanley owned and operated it for more than six decades, expanding it from a grocery store and service station to include dry-cleaning and taxi services. When he first opened the store, eggs sold for 10¢ per dozen, meat for 10¢ a pound, and twenty-five pounds of flour for 50¢. After the original building burned, Stanley constructed a separate building for his dry-cleaning service, renamed City Cleaners. Born May 4, 1904, O.C. Stanley also served as a minister for three area Baptist churches. In 1937, he built and became the original pastor of First Baptist Church of Leighton, the town's first black Baptist church. He married Elsie King Stanley of Leighton, and they had ten children. A farmer, freemason, member of the Order of the Eastern Star, trustee of the North Alabama Baptist Academy, and a charter member of the Valleywide Improvement Assoc. of Courtland, Stanley died on August 1, 1987.