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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The land where Hillsdale Country Store sits on U.S. 211 east of Washington has quite a history.
The grocery was built as a one room store in 1929 by M.C. Corder. Everett Estes* remembers his grandfather’s store well, back when people were mostly self-sufficient, and bartered eggs, homemade butter, chickens, or other goods at the grocery store for staples like sugar and coffee. “This guy named Henry Williams would come over the mountain on his horse to trade his eggs,” said Mr. Estes.
If purchased instead of bartered, Carger coffee was 15 cents a pound (“not 13 oz., like today,” said Mr. Estes); sugar was 5 cents a pound; Coca-Cola 3 cents a bottle; cigarettes 10 cents a pack, and 5 cents for Bull Durham or Golden Grain tobacco. Ice was packed in straw and kept in a deep pit.
Back then the store was part of Hillsdale Farm, which included a house and the property where the Bennett-Butler car lot now stands. The Hillsdale Drive-In Theatre stood on the land prior to the car lot. “It opened in the spring of 1958,” said Mr. Estes. He ran the movie projector and it cost $1 a carload to get in. He said that sometimes it looked like there might be 20 people in a car. They sold hot dogs, popcorn, candy, potato chips, and other goodies.
Greg Clark said he used to get some great brownies there.
It was quite a popular spot until it closed in 1973.
Mr. Estes’ mother, Bertha Armel, inherited the store in the 1940’s. She sold it in the 60’s to Warren and Lois Settle. Other owners have been Eddie
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