KSKansas field entry
The Mildred Store
Mildred, KS
A tiny-town grocery where meat, deli food and everyday staples occupy the front of a century-old building while the back opens into a stage, sound system and dance hall hosting live country music every third Saturday.
The Mildred Store keeps a rural grocery alive by turning the same century-old building into a deli, meat market, community gathering place and genuine live-music dance hall.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Grocery store, general store, deli, meat market, sandwich counter, music venue, dance hall, event space, and rural-road-trip destination.
The strange part is not a decoration or occasional popup: the working grocery and the working country-music venue are two permanent identities inside the same small-town building.
The Mildred Store serves a tiny Allen County community from a building that has spent more than a century adapting to whatever the town needs. The front remains an operating grocery with deli and meat-market functions, while former feed-store and garage space in the rear has become a stage-equipped event room with a sound system, refreshment area and seating. Every third Saturday, the building turns into a live country-music dance hall, drawing visitors far beyond Mildred while the store continues functioning as the community's everyday grocery.
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What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Rural grocery
- Century-old store building
- Deli
- Meat-market component
- Monthly country music night
- Third-Saturday dances
- Live stage
- Community event space
- Tiny-town destination
- Associated Lazy Daz RV Park