J. A. Hilton building the community's first brick store and operated a hardware store in later years.
Ironically, the fire that destroyed the town's new brick stores was incentive other business owners needed to rebuild using more sound building techniques and materials.
J. R. Saunders also built a brick store and offered the first general stock of goods for sale in the town.
A rebuilt store burned in 1917, and a brick store was built the same year to replace it.
In a two-block area, shaking wrecked fourteen chimneys, including six chimneys at one brick store which collapsed.
Ethan walks past Michael Eady's new brick store.
Attwood was a town merchant and built the first brick store, the Attwood Mercantile Store.
He was also able to build a brick store and a hemp warehouse.
The two-story brick store was designed in the Neoclassical style, a common design for commercial establishments at the time.
He sprang to the corner of the brick store.
