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1 think times have changed and ifc*s had its day’” owner Martha O Bannon-Hitt said of the Emporium.
“There has been a steady decline in business and this past year was really bad,“ she said.
In addition,, she said tourists would rather stay on the interstate than have to drive through Gainesville, then Warrenton to get on Route 211 where there is “no place to eat, no bathrooms”' and 211 is a “well' known speed trap.“
CKBannon-Hitt started working in her father's store as a bookkeeper in 197T. Iter father Maurice O’Bannon started the Emporium in the old Sperryville schoolhouse in 1970 — now The T,i«tk, a community center and tor' merty headquarters of the Faith Mountain Company which specialised in doth' ing, handcrafts, herbs, flowers and some antiques.
The schoolhouse also was used briefly as a restaurant and retail out' let for Sunnyside Farm before owner David Cole abruptly shut down, sold the farm and left to grow pineapples in Hawaii.
When her father died in 1995, O'Bannon-Hitt
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