Grocery Stores of Clarke County VA

The A&P supermarket that many longtime residents remember opened on April 11, 1968. Today that building is Berryville Auto Parts and Blue Ridge Hospice Thrift Shop. The original A&P grocery store building on W. Main Street in Berryville was demolished in the mid-1980s to make way for a new Clarke Courier newspaper office (now the Tea Cart).
The A&P on W. Main later became a SuperFresh. When SuperFresh closed in March 1998, folks began shopping at the new Food Lion near Battlefield Estates. The Food Lion building later became Shop ’N Save, and it is now Martin’s.
How many long-gone grocery stores in Clarke County do you remember? Here are some…
• Shackleford’s Grocery Store in Berryville
• Locke & Co. grocery store in Millwood
• Simpson’s Department Store; later the Boyce Grocery Store
• Benji’s Grocery Store on East Main Street in Berryville
• Leake’s Grocery on U.S. 340 north of Berryville
• Good’s Grocery along U.S. 340 north of Gaylord
• Webbtown Grocery on Va. 7 east of Berryville
By the 1920s, retail food sales in the United States were mostly small grocery stores where the clerks helped fetch food items for the customers. Along with the automobile and greater mobility came the concept of an inexpensive food market relying on economies of scale – what we call supermarkets.

This photo of Webbtown Market regulars- Roger Sours, Bob Buckley, Jr., Clarence Kerns, Ed Kelley and George Sours was published in the Feb. 22, 1968, edition of the Clarke Courier newspaper. The market was at the northeast corner of Wickliffe Road (Rt. 608) and Va. 7 (Harry Byrd Hwy.); the building has been a private residence for many years.

Webbtown Market was at the northeast corner of Wickliffe Road (Rt. 608) and Va. 7 (Harry Byrd Hwy.); the building has been a private residence for many years.

Sleepy Hollow Grocery in the 1960s in the Frogtown neighborhood on the mountain. It was owned by Clayton Shepherd.

The Safeway supermarket at 15 Crow Street in Berryville opened in February 1960. Today it is NIK's restaurant and Reed's Pharmacy.

Brothers Oppie and Phil Cunningham, who began working at Locke & Co. grocery store in 1944, bought it in 1956, and were an integral part of the Millwood community until they sold the store in January 2002.

Leake’s Grocery on U.S. 340 north of Berryville. It was located near Summit Point Road and demolished when U.S. 340 was widened to four lanes.

Green’s Store sat on the northwest corner of White Post and Berrys Ferry roads in the Village of White Post. Photo published July 8, 1982, in the Clarke Courier newspaper.

Good’s Grocery sat along U.S. 340 north of Gaylord.

The Frogtown Grocery Store was located on Rt. 606; store keeper Tina Poston stands in the doorway in this 1990 photo.

Scheuer’s Store was located along Berryville’s Main Street.  Copehaver & Rutherford's Market in 1903.

What is presently Scheuer's Store used to be a grocery store and meat market own by Marshall Copenhaver and Oscar Rutherford back some 40 years ago. Those pictured are John Russell, Ed Diffendaffer, Oscar Rutherford and William Rosenberry.  If you can notice the prices, you will see lima beans for nine cents a pound.; squash, .10 per pound and peas, three pounds for .22.

Today, the former Boyce Grocery store at 17 E. Main St. is The Other Elizabeth, headquarters of Elizabeth Locke Jewels. This photo was taken about 1932; it was published Sept. 21, 1985, in the Clarke Courier newspaper, when the Town of Boyce was celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Benji’s grocery store was located at 207 E. Main St. in Berryville. It was destroyed by fire in December 2007.

Photo by Stephen Lee.

The original A&P grocery store building on W. Main Street in Berryville was demolished in the mid-1980s to make way for a new Clarke Courier newspaper office (now the Tea Cart).

The A&P supermarket at 111 W. Main St. that opened on April 11, 1968. Today that building is Berryville Auto Parts and Blue Ridge Hospice Thrift Shop.

The supermarket later became a SuperFresh; it closed in March 1998.

 

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