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First Store in the Burnt District, 1871

First Store in the Burnt District, 1871
(Stereograph, Copelin & Hine)

Schock, Bigford & Company, selling cigars, tobacco, grapes, apples, and cider at "Old Prices," is generally credited as being the first retail enterprise to reopen in the devastated downtown.



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