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Rainbow Store at Elkton Area Ends in 1948
The three part series closes with Marion K Eppard’s store near Elkton, Virginia four miles east of town. Angus Lam first ran Rainbow Post Office from 1899 to 1907. Kell Eppard and later Marion Kelly Eppard kept the business until about 1948. The aging building survives near Hensley Hollow Road in Mount Pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angus F. Lam
Mount Pleasant Church
Elkton
Rainbow
Marion Eppard
Lam
Angus “Ang” Lam
Rainbow Post Office
W.A. Smith
Rainbow Store
Sanford Andrew Kelly
Kell” Eppard
Kell Eppard
Marion Kelly Eppard
Vivian Eppard-Lam
Mt. Pleasant
Harrisonburg
Marion K. Eppard
Hensley Hollow Road
Mount Pleasant