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Crossroads | Story and Photos by Audrey T. Hingley, Contributing Writer
MOUNT LAUREL, VA
Mount Laurel, Virginia: Home to
silence, peace and good neighbors
Jackie
Anderson
was owner
of Triple A
Grocery
(now
Mount
Laurel Grocery) from 2005 to
2017. 'Ninety percent of
business [comes from] locals,'
Anderson explains. 'Some come
every day. The rest are people
traveling through [the
community]. I used to know
everybody [here]. Now I don't
know half of them.'
M
ount Laurel, Virginia, a few
miles off Route 360 in Halifax
County, was once a bustling
community.
" There were two blacksmith shops
here and a wagon-wheel maker in the
mid-1930s, " recalls Sidney Clark. " At
one time, there were five country stores.
I ran a little general store out in front of
my basement where I sold sodas, bread
and milk from 1964 until 1986. "
In addition to running his store and
raising tobacco, Clark worked for
Burlington Industries for 29½ years
before retiring. He adds, " I educated my
children through tobacco. My son is an
electrical engineer in Maryland and my
daughter is a nurse in Suffolk who has a
[second] home near us. "
Today, the unincorporated
community's only remaining store is
Mount Laurel Grocery (formerly Triple A
Grocery), at the intersection of Mount
Laurel Road and Hunting Creek Road.
The store remains a morning hangout
for locals and a popular spot for a quick
lunch or dinner of barbecue or hot dogs.
Jackie Anderson, who worked 19 years
for DScan Furniture, bought Triple A
Grocery in 2005; wife Judy had run
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the store about 15 years prior to
Anderson buying it. In October 2017,
sisters Jennifer Hatcher and Melissa
Fears took over, renaming the store
Mount Laurel Grocery.
" Ninety percent of business [comes
from] locals, " Anderson explains.
" Some come every day. The rest are
people traveling through [the
community]. I used to know everybody
[here]. Now I don't know half of them. "
Harvie Hardie's father was only 18
years old when he opened the original
store in 1928. Hardie recalls, " We
carried plow parts and more hardware
items [then]. Everybody raised tobacco
and you could get everything here in
those days. When I was a kid, all the
boys in the neighborhood would be at
the store. Guys used to play checkers
here and politicians would come by too;
it was always a hangout. "
Hardie worked at a Richmond
accounting firm after college and began
running the store his father founded in
1966. He and wife Nancy have two
grown children and grandchildren.
" I bought land and cows, raised
cattle and ran the store six days a
week, " he explains.
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