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Enjoy a real country store experience
at the famous Vermont Country Store in 2 great locations - Rockingham, VT and Weston, VT, where you can
buy a wedge of aged cheddar cut from a 20-pound wheel, a long-lost apothecary
brand you remember and trust, new red longjohns, a cozy for your teapot,
and then fill a bag full of your old favorites at the candy counter.
Stocked to the rafters with a huge assortment of practical and hard-to-find
merchandise you can't find anywhere else, The Vermont Country Store has
something for everyone.
It's like shopping in a museum, but only better.
Lodging Near Vermont Country Store
Looking for comfortable, affordable and convenient lodging near the Vermont
Country Store? The newly renovated Holiday Inn
Express - Springfield offers stylishly adorned guestrooms, first-class facilities, personal
service, and exciting Vermont
vacation packages. Visitors enjoy complimentary
breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center, whirlpool, high-speed internet,
business center, meeting
room, and close proximity to Vermont attractions,
mountains, rivers and vacation destinations. |
Since 1946, the original
store has charmed customers with its unique blend of fascinating merchandise
and real antiques. Eat at the Bryant House restaurant, then explore Weston—the
entire village, including our store, is on the National Historic Register. [Top]
History of the Vermont Country Store
The Vermont Country Store, founded by Vrest and Ellen Orton, printed
its first catalogue, consisting of 12 pages and 36 items, in their
garage print shop and where mailed to their Christmas card list in
late 1945. The store opened in the spring of 1946 and to everyone's
amazement people found their way along dirt roads to the small village
of Weston, population 475 at that time. Weston has now grown to almost
600 people. The business was greatly aided by a full-length article
in the 1952 Saturday Evening Post, entitled “The Happy Storekeeper
of the Green Mountains.” There was hardly a soul in America who
did not read the Post in those days. [Top]
Vermont Country Store – Art of Storekeeping
The Vermont Country Store has been a thriving business and an a quintessential
part of the character and landscape of Weston, sustaining the art of
storekeeping based on the principles of finding useful, functional
products that the farm families of northern Vermont could not easily
find elsewhere, or make themselves. It was from these principles that
their motto, "We sell products that don't come back, to people
who do," was born. [Top] |
