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Practically an
institution
BY LEE COGHLAN
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Since 1988, Mary’s Little Shop has been firmly ensconced in Woodville and is still going strong. The shop is located in two buildings right on Sperryville Pike or Route 522.
One of the buildings used to be an old gas station. With an interesting array of products, Mary Nicholson caters to locals and tourists as well. These days you can stop at Mary’s for all kinds of fresh fruit and vegetables, salad dressings, barbecue sauce, apple cider, honey, hanging plants, annuals, perennials, and all types of ceramics.
The ceramics are animals mostly - pigs, cows, cats and dogs. They are used mostly for decoration, but some are piggy banks and some are pitchers and bowls.
The enterprise began when Mary was a young woman. She was attending high school in Madison County and working at her uncle’s grocery store in Haywood. It was then that she began to want a shop of her own. But before that came about, Mary married her husband, Billy Nicholson, and had three daughters.
Her sales experience came from working the flea market in Front Royal. There she concentrated on produce and ceramics. She wanted to sell a wider array of products, but she did not feel she could sell the jams, jellies, and fruits as other vendors were already selling them.
During much of that time, Mary was longing for a shop of her own. When she found out about her cur
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