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By Stephen Dakkinu
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
For several years, the declining number of visitors to Shenandoah National Park has been taking a toll on businesses along Route 211 from Rappahannock County into the park at Thornton Gap. Small motels are empty, fruit stands mostly are gone. Cooters closed shop and moved to Gatlinburg. Tenn. The Faith Mountain Company, too. dropped otY the landscape. But the Sperryville Emporium hung on.
In a county that has come to be identified mostly with vineyards. organic produce and a world-famous inn. the Emporium - a touristy mini-mall represented a slice of what Rappahannock had once been.
Now it is lor sale tor $1.5 million.
See EMPORIUM. Page A5
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