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The Courant reported today that the Plimpton Manufacturing Company had leased the space formerly occupied by Hills & Smith for use as their wholesale outlet.
Hills & Smith’s former space was likely located at either 358 or 368 Asylum Street (or both), and its current space was located at 364 Asylum Street. In any event, I vote for Plimpton Manufacturing as having leased 368 Asylum Street, as that was next door to their retail store at 366 Asylum Street.
There was a fire in the basement of the Batterson Building that affected the Plimpton store at 366 Asylum Street on November 16, 1881.
Hills & Smith were grocers.
Unattributed. “Hartford and vicinity,” Hartford Daily Courant, June 5, 1882, page 2.
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