Marshville Heritage Society's Heritage preservation

During the 1880s, the store proprieter would have welcomed customers to this general merchandise store. They sold a little bit of everything here that villagers, local farm families, or visiting out-of-towners might want—from groceries to fabrics to farm tools to fishing poles. The store also served as a community gathering place, for customers to exchange news, socialize, and pick up mail.

Choices between similar products even in country stores like this one were quite plentiful. Decisions by shoppers depended upon such things as their family background, gender, financial means, and personal values.

Other things sold; hardware, tools, canned goods, clothes, shoes, paint, paper, etc. What are the oldest products still on grocers' shelves today, i.e. which products have been around the longest, perhaps even from the 1800s? Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce. It's been around since 1835.

Established in 1873, Ganong is Canada's oldest chocolate and candy company. Its’ Chicken Bones can be purchased here at the store..