Haymarket Pharmacy

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, this drug store was owned by Dr. Granville Coleman of Culpeper and then by John T. Carter and Eppa P. Hunt. In the mid-1920s, “Dusty” Rhoades, owner of the Rhoades Drug Store in Warrenton, bought the drug store in Haymarket from Eppa P. Hunt.

In the 1930s retired physician and U.S. Air Force Colonel Edward Beverley bought the drug store from Rhoades. Dr. Beverley turned the drug store into a popular meeting place for young and old by serving ice cream, sodas, milkshakes, sandwiches and Coca-Cola.

These three interior photos of the Haymarket Drugstore were taken by a photographer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1941 while in Haymarket to take photos of a chicken farm. Photos courtesy Library of Congress.

Dr. Beverley retired from the drug store and sold the building to Cary Smith in the late 1940s. Mr. Smith was married to Brownie Bass Tulloss, longtime Haymarket town clerk. Mr. Smith converted the store to a post office and served as the town's Postmaster from 1933 to 1959. The building continued to be used as the Haymarket Post Office until the 1980s.