RIRhode Island field entry
Brown & Hopkins Country Store
Chepachet, RI
A two-floor Chepachet country store operating since 1809, where current candles, sweets, gourmet pantry goods, home décor and gifts share the building with an original penny counter and artifacts from more than two centuries of mercantile history.
Brown & Hopkins remains a working modern country store inside a 1799 building, with current retail spread around an original penny counter and preserved store relics.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Current two-floor country-store retail, an original penny counter, a 1799 building and more than two centuries of continuous general-store history.
The active shop layers broad present-day gift and pantry retail onto a remarkably intact historic mercantile setting with original counters and artifacts.
Brown & Hopkins Country Store operates year-round in a Chepachet building constructed in 1799 and used as a general store since 1809. Today its two floors sell candles, sweets, gourmet pantry goods, home décor and gifts while retaining an original penny counter and other objects tied to the store's long mercantile history. Brown and Hopkins became business partners in 1921, and Cynthia and Scott Barlow became the twentieth owners in 2024. Historical displays are part of the working shop rather than a substitute for current retail, and longevity claims are kept to documented dates rather than an independently certified superlative.
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What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Country store operating since 1809
- 1799 building
- Original penny counter
- Two retail floors
- Candles
- Sweets
- Gourmet foods
- Home décor
- Gifts
- Historic store relics