819-821 Main Street (above, around 1890; below, around 1950) opened as a store in 1855 and was operated over the years by members of the Foster, Parmelee, and Bossen families. “It was a store and a post office… I don’t know how anybody could hold that much merchandise in that small a space, but he did… the local farmers would congregate, and about nine o’clock was when the mail was supposed to have been sorted… you’d put the hired man to work, and then you’d go down to the store and sit around and shoot the bull with everybody else until the mail was sorted. Then you’d grab a handful of cigars, buy a handful of cigars, and go home.” —Charles Nielsen Oral History 2. (Above, Hildred Raymond Collection, WMLM; below, WMLM.)