About Us

Maryville Corner Market has had several incarnations since originally built in 1937.

Don Blackburn built the original store where he sold groceries and gas in the front and moonshine out of the back during the depression. Blackburn was quite a colorful character best known for bootlegging, being a daredevil pilot and having a pet bear that he walked around Maryville on a leash.

Around 1940, Blackburn sold his store to C.K. Walker. It became headquarters to his fleet of rolling stores that serviced the Maryville area for more than a decade.

In the 1950s, Lyle Huff and William McMurray bought the store. Huff and McMurray Grocery was a gas station as well as a grocery. The store was best known for its fresh meat and produce as well as fair prices. It was a corner grocery store where neighborhood children frequented the candy counter and their parents shopped for groceries and dry goods.

After Huff's death, the market served as various store fronts and businesses over the years. It even housed male Maryville College students in the upstairs addition for a period of time.