Support Local Shopping as a Storekeeper Volunteer!

Do you enjoy shopping locally, promoting local businesses, and connecting with others? The historic Hugh Torance House and Store invites you to join our dedicated team of volunteers as a storekeeper! As a storekeeper, you’ll help bring our site’s history to life by welcoming visitors to our incredibly preserved circa 1779 historic site and assisting customers at NC’s oldest standing mercantile store.

The Hugh Torance House and Store, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located at 8231 Gilead Road in Huntersville, NC, is open most Sundays from 1pm-4pm and docents are needed during those times.

Why volunteer as a storekeeper?

• Discover fascinating stories about our town’s past.
• Share your support of local producers and craftspeople.
• Meet a welcoming group of fellow volunteers who share your interests.
• Enjoy the satisfaction of inspiring curiosity and preserving local heritage.

What’s involved?

Storekeepers commit to just one 3-hour shift per month (or more often, if you’d like!) with the following duties:

• Follow a checklist to open the historic site for visitors.
• Greet visitors and check in registered tour guests.
• Guide visitors in small groups along a tour of the site using a provided outline.
• Assist gift shop guests with store item purchases.
• Light housekeeping such as straightening store displays, dusting cobwebs, sweeping leaves off floors and stairways.
• Follow a checklist to close and secure the site.
• Volunteers are encouraged to dress in colonial costume attire to help maintain the living history aesthetic of the historic site.

No experience? No problem! We offer training for all new storekeeper volunteers.

Volunteering at the historic Hugh Torance House and Store allows our nonprofit to offer high-quality, engaging experiences that foster community stewardship of local history. Join us to showcase and share the rich history of the Hugh Torance House and Store to ensure its preservation!

We're so excited to volunteer alongside you - Contact us today!

For more info, please contact us at 704-920-9931 or Lauren@HEARTSco.org