🍗 Gordonsville Fried Chicken Festival is October 4th on Main St in Gordonsville

After the Civil War, Gordonsville’s train station became the stage for a unique kind of entrepreneurship. Formerly enslaved women—known as waiter carriers—would balance platters of fried chicken, pies, and coffee on their heads, rushing to sell them through the open windows of passing trains. Hungry travelers couldn’t get enough, and soon the “snack from Gordonsville Station” become famous.

The town earned bold nicknames like the Fried Chicken Capital of the World and the chicken-leg center of the universe. Though dining cars and regulations eventually ended the trackside trade, the pride and recipes lived on. Today, the Gordonsville Fried Chicken Festival keeps that legacy alive each October, with cook-offs, pie contests, live music, and a chance to bite into history.

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