(Below) The southwest corner of the intersection of Dashwood Road and Centre Street; looking southwest. To the left; with two men standing in front of it, is the brick general store constructed by John Mitchell. To its right, with two other people standing in front; one wearing a white apron, is the former meat market, moved to this location by Jacob Kellerman in 1896 (Rader; pg. 10). Next to it, is the two story brick home constructed by William Pfaff on the site of where Jacob Kellerman’s post office once stood. It is probably best known locally as the Merner/Nicholson house. (Rader pg. 37)
(below) The same corner in 2012. The Mitchell store was completely destroyed by fire in February 2006; its final owner was Stanley Hall. The former meat market building is still in place beside the Pfaff house, although now obscured by foliage.
“Mr. Mitchell built the present Nutt store. Other owners were L. Simon, Kellerman Bros., Tieman and Edighoffer, J.C. Reid and Co., Restemayer and Miller, Ron and Shirley Braid, Bill and Rita Chandler and Doug and Nancy Nutt. Doug and Nancy Nutt are natives of Woodstock. They moved to London in 1970 following their marriage and eight years later to Dashwood with two young children Paul and Rachel. Seeking a change in lifestyle, they bought the general store on the south west corner of the main intersection.
‘We took over the operation of the store, December 1979 and moved from a rented house to the three bedroom apartment we had built on the second floor. The area above the store used to be a millinery shop, wallpaper and supplies many years ago. Since the store was built nearly a hundred years ago it has seen many changes in products sold and modernization. It is still run as a general store.'”
extracted from “Friedsburg-Dashwood 1860-1985” by Mary (Patterson) Rader, 1985; pg. 7 ;ISBN 0-9692115-0-3
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“Previous owners Ron and Shirley Braid found the original tombstone of Absalom Fried who died January 8 1874, when they were remodelling the store. Mr. Fried is buried on the Goshen Line in a well marked grave.”
extracted from “Friedsburg-Dashwood 1860-1985” by Mary (Patterson) Rader, 1985; pg. 4 ;ISBN 0-9692115-0-3