Deerfield, Virginia. Population 132 people, 60 cows, 15 sheep and two dozen chickens. Deerfield is a sleepy little own in Augusta County on Deerfield Valley Road, Rt. 629, which connects West Augusta on Rt. 250 and the Goshen area on
Rt. 39. There’s no a lot of traffic through Goshen. No reason to be there.
Deerfield consists of a handful of farms, some old plantation homes, a post office, a community dump, a rescue squad and an old schoolhouse. Deerfield School, by golly, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is also a store in Deerfield. They call it the Deerfield Mall. It sells a little of everything including some of the best hot dogs in Virginia.
I have traveled the Deerfield Valley Road on many occasions to and from hunting and fishing expeditions, and any time I pass through and I’m hungry, I stop for a hot dog. The clerk at the Deerfield Store, who also serves as head chef, takes your order, disappears into the kitchen and returns in a few minutes with a couple of hot dogs that go down mighty easy. Maybe it’s just that I’m super hungry, but these are some of the best dogs this side of Capt’n Franks in Nags Head. Don’t order one with chili, though. The chili pretty much sucks. I tried some of the other items on their diner-type menu, but nothing compares with the dogs. They are so good, it’s almost worth a trip in itself over to the Land O’ Goshen.