aerial view Fort Hill Village, Lynchburg Virginia, 1970

The Fort Hill Village at this time featured two grocery stores, two department stores, a drug store, a hardware store, an ice cream shop, a cafeteria and much more.

 

The Fort Hill Village was built circa 1962 on the site that was previously a wooded junkyard. Its original businesses, as listed in the 1963 City Directory, from the left end to the right, were:

- Winn-Dixie Food Store

- Miller's Family Dept. Store

- The Band Box (women's clothing)

- Va. State ABC Store No. 279

- David Kulman Men's Store

- High's Ice Cream Co.

- Village Barber Shop

- Deeb Hairstylists

- W.T. Grant Co.

- Pay-Less Shoes Inc.

- Peoples Service Drug Stores, Inc.

- Jefferies Toy Center

- Western Auto (hardware)

- S.H. Kress & Co. (dept. store) / Gourmet Luncheonette

- Kwik-As-A-Wink laundry & cleaners

- Mill Fabrics Inc.

- First National Trust & Savings Bank

- A&P Food Stores

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