The Oven Fork Mercantile sits nestled in the valley between Pine and Black Mountains, halfway between Whitesburg and Cumberland on Highway 119. In the 1920's, it was known as Sumpter's Grocery and Service Station. The coming of the railroad, the building of coal camps, and the onset of World War 1 had brought a coal boom to the mountainous region in the early 1900's. The store continued to...