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The Dixie Pig may be gone from Beacon Hill, but pieces of the once-popular Mount Vernon restaurant continue to turn up in a fire station, a private kitchen and even an elementary school patio.

Located across from the former Beacon Mall shopping center, the restaurant hosted everything from baseball banquets and bowling-team gatherings to nights out for local teachers. Its doors eventually closed, and its illuminated neon sign came down, but several remnants escaped demolition.

At Fire Station 11 in Penn Daw, part of the old restaurant was repurposed as a cupola above the station sign, protecting it from the weather. Firefighter Domenick Iannelli led the effort.

One of the Dixie Pig’s booths traveled to Winchester. Chris Trice, who previously lived in Alexandria, installed it in his kitchen and now uses it while drinking his morning coffee and reading the news on his computer.

Trice’s father, Brother Trice, was a lifelong firefighter whose name is commemorated by an alley in Old Town Alexandria. After learning that the restaurant would be demolished, the family managed to rescue the booth.

The building also supplied materials for Ricky Castles’ Eagle Scout project at Riverside Elementary School on Old Mount Vernon Road. Castles, a Mount Vernon Boy Scout, used preserved Dixie Pig bricks to construct a patio and add a new picnic table. His father helped remove mortar from the bricks so they could be reused at the school.

Another Dixie Pig once operated on the northern end of Old Town. A new owner later converted that location into Vasso’s Kitchen, a Greek restaurant, but kept the neon pig perched on the roof.