From 1873 to 1909, Ignatius Beall Ward ran a commercial business at the edge of his farm along Darnestown Road, near Muddy Branch Road. The store sold groceries and supplies and offered wheelwrighting and blacksmithing. The store also served as Hunting Hill's Post Office. His son Porter Garrett Ward ran the store from 1909 to 1929, when it was converted to a house and occupied by the Banks family until it was bulldozed in 1995.