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The last stop before Old Rag Mountain is still the little country grocery store on Route 231 in the F. T. Valley. But new owners Wilma and James Burke didn’t have to do much in the way of sign painting when they took over. They just painted over the “H” in “H and J” (for Harvey and Jean Gordon, former proprietors) and replaced it with a “W”.
The Burkes met Harvey Gordon when he visited their sandwich shop in Front Royal. He mentioned he was thinking about selling his business in Rappahannock. “We came over in the bio
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