MALL HALL OF FAME

The Dollar General Store story began in Scottsville, Kentucky, in October 1939. James Luther Turner and son Cal opened the first J.L. Turner & Son mercantile. The venture proved successful and, by the mid-1950s, there were thirty-five Turner's Department Stores in operation in Kentucky and Tennessee.

The concept of a Dollar Store, where everything sold for a dollar or less, was implemented. The Turner's location in Springfield, Kentucky closed and re-opened, as the very first Dollar General store, in June 1955. The company went public in 1968.

During Dollar General's early years, the corporate headquarters was located in Scottsville, Kentucky. A new "HQ" and distribution facility opened there in 1973. The home office moved to a center city location in Nashville, Tennessee in 1989. In the year 2000, the home office relocated from Nashville to the suburb of Goodlettsville.

Between July 2007 and August 2009, the company operated as a privately-held entity. In October 2023, there were 19,497 Dollar General Stores in forty-eight states and Mexico.

DOLLAR GENERAL JUNIOR-ANCHORED SHOPPING MALLS:

*NORMANDALE CENTRE, Montgomery, AL (center opened 1954)
*MIDDLETOWN MALL, White Hall, WV (mall opened 1971)
*RALEIGH MALL, Beckley, WV (mall opened in 1974)

Crowds gather for the June 1955 grand opening of the very first Dollar General Store. The chain, which started out in the Bluegrass State, grew exponentially between the 1970s and 1990s and is still in an expansion mode today.
Photo from https://newscenter.dollargeneral.com