Taylorstown Store

The Taylorstown Store is a historic structure at the junction of Taylorstown and Loyalty Roads in Taylorstown, Virginia, a small village in northwestern Loudoun County, Virginia. The general store, which is currently not open on a daily basis, has served as a focal point for community affairs for more than 200 years. It is typically opened for the first weekend in December, when the annual Taylorstown Art and Craft Fair is held, and for special events.

The Taylorstown Community Store, Inc. (TCSI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, bought the store and the neighboring two-story frame structure in 2003 and is raising funds to renovate and re-open the property to sell convenient foods, drinks, and household goods. The store will also feature a post office, art gallery, community meeting space, and a cafe/bakery. The original two-story building on the site was built in the late 1700s or early 1800s. It served as a general store and post office, and was used for a time as a theater and later a movie house. Immediately to the east of the old store building is a one-story concrete building built in 1904 to replace an earlier building that was destroyed by fire. Both structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Thomas Hickman and John Slater operated the store until 1899, at which point the partnership dissolved and the Hickmans took over. They saw the store through reconstruction before transferring ownership to the Mann family in 1938. Annie Elizabeth Mann served as proprietor until her death in 1976. The property was then purchased and reopened in 1979 under the management of Curt and Elizabeth Callaham. It closed in 1999 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401672.html Residents To Revive Store for Community - washingtonpost.com ] ] .

ee also

*Taylorstown, Virginia

External links

* [http://www.taylorstownstore.org/ Taylorstown Store Official Site]

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