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residents within a 15-mile radius. In today’s era of highly specialized superstores, it might be difficult to imagine, but this and other general stores had a very real ‘cradle to grave’ coverage of human needs: both baby shoes and casket hardware were stocked along with nearly everything, and we do mean everything in between (ladies hats with twice-a-year personal fitting by a Baltimore specialist, ice, grocery, haircuts, tailor, etc.). And while you’re at it, if you already have everything else, why not throw in a post office for good measure.
Yiewtown might have been called Forest Hill except that when a local post office was established in 1890 regulations required a single name for the ppstal area. Thus Viewtown (based, we believe on the Rappahannock-typical beauty of its locale) won the name contest and the Spillman store won the location contest for the post-office. And so it continued until the
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