Businesses and Organizations
Ashland, Virginia, is home to many businesses and organizations, past and present. The railroad has played a large role in commerce in this turn-of-the-century railroad town.
![Hughes Drug](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64709cfb904495464cab0775/1693183588778-JTXMOWFPLI8UJV8RQM0Y/Connie-Hughes-1954.jpg)
Hughes Drug
In 1899, pharmacist C.A. Barnes bought out a pharmacy owned by Woolfolk and Ellis. He established Barnes Drug Store just north of Thompson St on the west side of the railroad tracks.