Since 1867, in fact, when George A. Douglas built the town's first general merchandise store on this site. Mr. Douglas became the first postmaster and his store housed the first post office, known as the South Frankfort Post Office.
In 1887 Nils Glarum and Leonard Classens bought the store. A contemporary described the operation ". . . they carry in stock almost everything in the line of general merchandise and deal in cord-wood and hemlock bark . . . keeping a dozen teams on the road to South Frankfort Shipping Docks. Mr. Classens supervises the inside while Mr. Glarum makes everything outside hustle." Supplies were shipped in by sailing schooner.
In the 1920's a farmer's cooperative, the Benzie County Fruit Exchange, operated out of the building which was then called Glarum's Warehouse.
It was in the 1930's when the warehouse was stacked floor to ceiling with cabbage for shipment by rail, that it came to be known as the "Cabbage Shed". When Jim Clapp acquired the building in 1972 he considered many names for the restaurant of his dream, but tradition prevailed and the Cabbage Shed was resurrected. Opening day was August 31, 1985.
