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Amissville’s Corner Deli Market is closing

by | May 17, 2024

Ernesto Elias, right, in front of the historic Hackley's Country Store in January 2023.
Ernesto Elias, right, in front of the historic Hackley's Country Store in January 2023.

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Ernesto Elias, right, in front of the historic Hackley’s Country Store in January 2023.

Longtime home of Hackley’s Country Store looking for new tenant

After just over a year of business, the Corner Deli Market in Amissville will close its doors this month. Now, the owner of the historic Rappahannock building, colloquially known as Hackley’s Country Store, is in search of a new tenant. 

Jan Makela, whose family has owned the building since 1934, said she is sad to see Ernesto Elias, the current tenant, leave. She has heard from many community members that they would like the space to remain a food purveyor, and she hopes to find a new tenant that will create a strong community presence in the village. 

“I’m always dreaming, and have wished for the longest time that that corner would be the center of activity for Amissville again like it used to be,” Makela said. “I’m hoping we’ll be able to find someone willing to come and stay long term.”

According to a post by the deli in the RappNet Facebook group, its last day of operation will be May 31.

“We are very sad to go, but unfortunately we have decided to no longer keep going with the business,” the post read. “Thank you so much for your support.”

Background:

Amissville’s shuttered Hackley’s to become ‘Corner Deli Market’ under new ownership

On Saturday, customers will be able to go inside the building to order food and coffee, but the convenient store will not yet open for business. There will be a grand reopening on April 22, which will include the convenient store, and Elias said they hope by then to expand the restaurant to also serve Latino cuisine.

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  • Ireland Hayes

    Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner.
    Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.
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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.