HILLTOWN HISTORY Back around the time the railroad started operation in the 1840s, L.M. and A.C. Root built a store near the railroad station which became a successful business later carried on by George Pease followed by his son Charles. Pease also made blue coal deliveries at the time. The coal came in by rail and was unloaded and delivered by Donald Besancon. A large scale for weighing the truckloads of coal was located beside the store. When Charles Pease re-located the Pease General Store to the Fay building next to the river, the original store became the A & L Market operated by Erick Ahlfors and Arthur Laro in the late 1930s and ’40s and later by Carl Libardi. Then a market run by Peter and Henrietta Davenport since 1983. Now an art gallery. We had the pleasure of meeting tue husband of Lynn at the Big E Train Show who has since moved from Chester.

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