Chesapeake City's Butcher Shop

Henry Hager’s Butcher Shop, circa 1915

This is an early photo of Henry Hager’s butcher shop on Bohemia Avenue, with Henry leaning against the post. Older residents told me that Mr. Hager was a big man, and that he used to deliver meat to residents of the north and south sides of Chesapeake City. At left is where the building called the Victorian Lady was to be built; it was a Sears and Roebuck building and stands today across from the Back Creek General Store. The site of the building at right is now a vacant lot, but in the forties and fifties I remember a small building where Mr. and Mrs. Mewhiter had a very popular drug store.

This second picture is of Henry Hager in later years.