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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When you’re driving down Sperryville Pike to Culpeper, as pretty a piece of rural Virginia countryside as anywhere in the state, a complete sales and service center for Apple computers is perhaps the last thing you would expect to see.
But there it is, BlueRidgeMac, in the center of the village of Woodville, in what was an old country store named Burke’s Grocery, a prime example of two very avant garde trends: electronic commuting and adaptive reuse.
Adaptive reuse is a term of art in Rappahannock County, listed in the zoning law, as a way to use an old building for modem purposes that might not be permitted as a new structure. County Administrator John McCarthy said, for instance, that it recently allowed a farm shed to be converted to an office.
See HERITAGE, Page A8
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