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    Walter Dodge's Store, Dennysville, Maine

    Photograph
    This view is a photocopy of a picture of Walter Dodge's Grocery Store, Water Street, Dennysville looking up Store Hill. This store was located on the current Post Office site. Beyond the store building can be seen the front of George Brown's blacksmith shop, Kilby's Store, and John Allan's livery stable up to Vose's store on the crest of Store Hill.

    There was yet another store on Water Street. Walter Dodge operated a grocery business in store which was located on the current post office site. After his building burned in 1901, he constructed another one but, after a few years, closed his store and moved away. Harvey Sprague used the building for a livery stable and, later, Fred Johnson Jr., used it for an automotive repair shop, while the second floor was a residence. The structure was finally purchased by Richard Hallowell, who conducted his electrical sales and service business and showed movies there. He later tore the building down and replaced it with the one being used for a post office. In the fall of 1898, George Brown started his blacksmith business in Dennysville by buying Ben Jones's tools and renting his shop below Gardner's store. Within a few years, he purchased land from Florriman Wilder and put up his own shop between that building and what is now the post office. Mr. Brown was "the village smithy" fifty-three years until his retirement in 1951. A few years later, his shop. the last one in Dennysville, was torn down. Some of his handiwork, however, is still in use. The site of his blacksmith shop is now the parking area beside the current post office building.

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    Walter Dodge's Store, Dennysville, Maine; Beyond the store building, can be seen the front of George Brown's blacksmith shop, Kilby's Store, John Allan's livery stable up to Vose's store on the crest of Store Hill.
    Dennysville Post Office; The Dennysville Post Office building is located on the site of Walter Dodge's Store.