First Store in the Burnt District

First Store in the Burnt District

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

Schock, Bigford & Company, selling cigars, tobacco, grapes, apples, and cider at "Old Prices," is generally credited as being the first retail enterprise in the devastated downtown. Others quickly followed. In a letter of October 21, Jared Bassett wrote in response to an offer of assistance, "I must help myself. I don't see any other way, for me. I must go to work and build up again.... I think tomorrow or next day I shall commence picking up my bricks, preparatory to building."


	First Store in the Burnt District, 1871 (Stereograph, Copelin & Hine)	Back in Business
	Schock, Bigford & Company, selling cigars, tobacco, grapes, apples, and cider at "Old Prices," is generally credited as being the first retail enterprise in the devastated downtown. Others quickly followed. In a letter of October 21, Jared Bassett wrote in response to an offer of assistance, "I must help myself. I don't see any other way, for me. I must go to work and build up again.... I think tomorrow or next day I shall commence picking up my bricks, preparatory to building."