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Hardware and farm equipment have been sold here since the 1870s. James Reardon's 1895 newspaper ad listed plows, spring wagons, buggies, garden barrows, and tools. In 1905, practical plumbing, steam and hot-water fitting, stoves, and ranges were added, along with the boast that the store had a telephone. When the original brick building doubled in width, the village post office relocated here for several years. Reardon Briggs Company was founded in 1907, adding runabouts, tractors, motor trucks, touring cars, harnesses, horse blankets, collars, and whips. The Flanigan family, first associated with the store in 1954, became owners in 1963 and brought the business into the 21st century.
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Millbrook, New York · United States
