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The Emporium

With Christmas music caroling over outdoor loudspeakers, that Sperryville Emporium is Rappahannock’s answer to the big city shopping centers and malls, minus the crowds and traffic headaches.

If shoppers find Sperryville, they can’t miss the Emporium. Packed into the old Sperryville school and spilling out into the parking lot, the store is one of the county's biggest businesses, pulling in tourists and travelers from all over the country as they pass through Rappahannock.

The Emporium carries clothes, hats, moccasins, baskets, stoneware, furniture, the almost mandatory antiques and hundreds of little souvenirs and whatnot items. But the Emporium’s best buys are in the enormous selection of planters and pots, made to hold every variety of indoor and outdoor plants from giant rubber

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