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sales, repair and showroom to an old country store in Woodville that had been built in the early 1900s.
Woodville is one of the more historic villages of Rappahannock, set out by the General Assembly in 1798 as “Wood Ville,” named for the wooded hills around it.
There were stores on this property since 1835, though this one was built by George Johnson in perhaps 1903.
Instead of building a modem building, van Dort leased the store from Rappahannock’s Building Inspector and Emergency 911 Coordinator, Richie Burke.
Burke said in a interview that the store had been sold to his grandfather and grandmother in 1945. It has teen in the Burke family ever since, run by uncles, aunts, Burke himself and most recently his mother.
With van Dort’s flair for interior design, what was a well-worn country store, crowded with the unsold clutter of decades, has now become a charming showroom and office, setting off her line of brand new computers, printers and other equipment against the old raw wood of the store.
Van Dort retained the old counters, worn with use, polishing them down to smooth surfaces. The floor too was retained, but is now covered
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