About Us

Welcome to Toots Creek Antiques Mall in Halifax, Virginia. Toots Creek has over 35 dealers featuring primitives and decorative accessories, vintage and purposeful furniture, unique collectibles, crocks, books, traditional furnishings, elegant furniture, garden and patio items, fine jewelry, quality menswear, tuxedo rental and a large consignment area. Recently we have added Lamp Repairs.

Having been in business for seven years, Toots Creek is well known for its customer service and excellent prices. Please visit us any Monday through Saturday 10 AM and 5 PM and Sundays between 1 PM and 5 PM to enjoy a most unique shopping experience.

Our Beginnings

Legend runs deep in shallow Toots Creek.  In the 1800s Adam Toot lived and operated a cannery on the very same site where Toots Creek Antiques Mall now stands.

Samuel Spencer ran a lumber company in the two buildings adjacent to and behind the current Mall location.  During the 1940s his son, Ernest Fowler Spencer, took over management of the lumber business.

Some time in 1954 Ernest F. Spencer had a larger building constructed to house the lumber business and to expand into hardware, paints, and other building supply items (the current site of Toots Creek Antiques Mall).  During the 1970s Doug Spencer took over the daily operation of the Building Supply Company bearing his family name.  Eventually the Spencers closed their building supply store located south of the railroad track just south of Toots Creek and leased it for what was to have been a nursing home.  Midway through the building transformation the nursing home  plans changed leaving the Spencer family with a partially partitioned building on heavily travelled US 501 in Halifax, VA.

Doug Spencer was a skeptic seven years ago when his son suggested that the family use the empty building to open up an Antiques Mall.  Doug, Jr. began a campaign to convince his dad to open the Mall.  His dad thought this was an absolutely stupid idea; however, Doug, Jr. persisted.  Nearly every time he came home he brought his father an antique tool of one sort or another, trying to push his idea closer to reality.  Doug, Jr.’s persistence eventually worked.  His dad and mom were finally convinced that an Antiques Mall would become another chapter in the Spencer Family history.

With a team of contractors under the direction of Walter Penick, Walter Kraft, James Stewart and the Spencer family worked nights and weekends for months to transform their building.  When it came time to name the new venture Doug Spencer decided on Toots Creek Antiques because of a special childhood memory.  When he was younger he often asked his dad to buy certain things.  His dad, not willing to indulge the youngster, would always reply, “Sure, you can have it when your ship comes up Toots Creek.”  With Toots Creek not much more than a trickle, that was a pretty safe way for a father to handle his son’s request.

When the Toots Creek Antiques Mall initially opened it was truly a family affair.  Daughters Lynne, Dana and Beth all participated in the business opening in November, 2002.  The mall opened with 30 vendors.  Today the Mall houses 35 dealers who carry antiques, collectibles, furniture, textiles, oriental rugs, glassware, garden décor, menswear and unique gifts of all types.  Individual room settings make the Toots Creek Antiques Mall a most unique shopping experience.

We hope to see you soon!