A 1975 view of Sunshine from the air shows Georgia Avenue streaking left to right as it crosses New Hampshire Avenue. The Mt. Carmel Methodist Church stands diagonally across from the site of the old Sunshine Store. A more recent Sunshine Store operates across Georgia Avenue. School buses park at the corner where Frank Cashell owned blacksmith and wheelwright shops. Spreading behind Mt. Carmel Church is the farm owned by Gartrells and then the Jacob Olands, who donated the corner for the church.

Long the center of town activity, Unity's general store was built by merchant Lloyd Colliflower about 1890. Both he and successor Joshua Higgins were forced to sell to cover losses. The store housed the post office, and beside it was a road scale for weighing wagons loaded with grain. Its role as town center peaked under the ownership of John Fletcher Brown, who stayed open late to allow local "loafers and liars" to chat on his porch around a coal stove. Gypsies drifting through town were not welcome: While one would try to keep him busy, others would steal from the shelves. The store closed in the late 1950s.