In the 1880s, Burkley Bullock had a restaurant at Virginia Midland Junction, where the Amtrak Station now stands. According to family lore, once a customer rushing to catch a train ordered a fried chicken leg, and Burkley’s son Albert ran to the chicken coop in the rear yard, killed a chicken, cut off one leg, picked off the feathers, threw it into deep hot fat, and served it to the customer in time for him to catch his train.