Green Mountain Service Center, later Green Mountain Country Store, Keene

Name:  Green Mountain Service Center, later Green Mountain Country Store

Date:  2018

Image Number:  MJ40cdMJ01

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Oscar Mahone, co-owner of the Green Mountain Service Center

The Green Mountain Service Center was built in the early 1950's at 5977 Scottsville Road in Keene, Virginia, and its original owners were Oscar Mahone (shown at right) and his brother and sister-in-law, William and Ruth Mahone. The Grand Opening of this store occurred on 2 April 1954, and it sold groceries, fresh meat, fruits, and vegetables as well as Gulf gas and oil. The store was famous for big hand-dipped ice cream cones. During the summer, the line of people waiting to get an ice cream cone was usually out the door.

Grand Opening advertisement for Green Mountain Service Center, April 2, 1954
Boy and Girl at Green Mountain Service CentBoy and Girl at Green Mountain Servicer, 1955
A boy and girl enjoying a soda drink at Green Mountain Service Center, August 1955
Bicyclist gets a refreshing soda at Store, August 1955
A bicylist apppreciating a cold soda at Green Mountain Service Center, August 1955

Green Mountain Service Center after a winter snow storm in the late 1950's.

In 1979 the Mahone family sold the Green Mountain Service Center and retired from the grocery store and gas station business. The store was renamed 'Green Mountain Country Store' by its new owners, and in 2018, the Green Mountain Country Store continues to support the local community with the gas station and the same food products as well as homemade delicatessen food and cold beer.

Scottsville Museum wishes to thank Maxwell Johnson for his research and photographs on this Esmont community business! Additionally, the Museum wishes to thank Pam Gardner, daughter of Oscar Mahone, for her information about and photographs of this Mahone family store from 1955-1979.

References:
1)   Pam Gardner, Charlottesville, VA; daughter of Oscar Mahone.
2)  Jones, Bernie, et al. "Interview of Ruth Ward and Nancy Luck on August 14, 2001, by Bernie Jones and Deva Woodley of the Race and Place Project. (Oral History)." Race and Place, Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 2001.
3)  Hallock, Jennifer; Gardiner Hallock & Kristie Baynard. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District." February 2007.
4)  "The Peer", Vol. XXIII, Albemarle High School, 1976, Charlottesville, VA; p. 208. (Hunter Publishing Co., Winston-Salem, NC).

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