On North Highway 27 in Somerset, Kentucky, the local Peddler’s Mall location fills a suite at 345 North Highway 27 with rows of independent dealer booths selling retro clothing, repurposed and refinished furniture, antique decor, vintage memorabilia, and the kind of everyday secondhand goods that turn a quick browse into a longer hunt. Somerset itself is the seat of Pulaski County in south-central Kentucky, a regional hub for the Lake Cumberland area, and this Peddler’s Mall serves shoppers from across that lake country as well as travelers passing through on Highway 27.
This location is one stop in a growing regional chain of Peddler’s Mall stores that now spans roughly twenty locations across Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, with new stores continuing to open, including one recently announced for Wheelersburg, Ohio. Each Peddler’s Mall runs on the same basic model: individual vendors rent booth space, typically an eight-by-ten stall, stock it with their own inventory, and set their own prices, while the mall itself handles the storefront, the cash registers, and the marketing that brings shoppers through the door. That structure is part of why the mix of merchandise changes so often. A booth that was full of vintage kitchenware last month might be reworked into a furniture display or a rack of retro clothing the next time a customer stops in, which is a big part of the appeal for regulars who treat a Peddler’s Mall visit as a routine hunt for something new rather than a one-time errand.
The Somerset store is open seven days a week, with hours that stretch into the evening on the busiest days: Monday through Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. That schedule gives both weekday browsers and weekend shoppers plenty of room to work through the booths without feeling rushed, and it reflects a broader pattern across the chain, where most locations keep similar extended hours to accommodate the steady churn of vendor turnover and new stock.
Because Peddler’s Mall operates as a marketplace of many small businesses rather than a single curated shop, the range of goods at the Somerset location tends to be broader than what a typical single-owner antique store can offer. Shoppers looking for one specific category, whether that is vintage advertising signs, costume jewelry, hand-me-down furniture ready for a refinish, or retro clothing pulled from another era, are as likely to find a dedicated vendor for it as they are to stumble across it while browsing a completely different booth. That built-in variety, combined with the mall’s central location just off one of Somerset’s main commercial corridors, has made it a regular stop for both local pickers and visitors passing through the Lake Cumberland region looking for something unusual to bring home.
For anyone shopping secondhand and vintage finds in Pulaski County, the Somerset Peddler’s Mall offers one of the area’s largest concentrations of independent antique and resale dealers under a single roof, open daily with hours built around evening and weekend shopping.
