Barnesville 1800-1839 Other Industries 1810 James Riggs of Hagerstown Md. Built a wrought and nail factory… * William Henderson started a spinning and flax wheel factory in 1812…then began making wooden bowls. With Henderson the Hon. William Hawkins, late of ______, learned his trade… (here the paper was damaged and did not microfilm well. It will not scan, but I will give you what I can make out-seems to move from pottery to bricks…) About the same time ____Tegard began to manufacture ____in various patterns. William Piper manufactured bricks. * The Rogers brothers had some sort of mill, probably a woolen mill, but it’s not readable. They went into partnership with Barnes and the business failed. * James McLeigh, a Scotchman, in 1825 erected a factory of sorts for wagons, plows….. Mercantile Houses James Barnes opened the first store in 1810, with William Philpot as clerk… . Hon. Thomas S_____opened out a store in the late Fraiser house in 1812…. William Coulson operated a store… Myers and Young opened the fourth store during the war and failed in 1819. John Davenport, arrived in 1818….. John Davenport and John Gibson formed a partnership…..William Philpott was an additional partner… Mummy and Affleck operated a store… Benjamin H. Mackall purchased the store from Mummy and Affleck… Benjamin Hoyle and William Green opened a store in 1826… Thomas D. Laws had the first grocery store… Allen Green and his son Lewis H. Green, began the mercantile business…. Email me privately if you need a scan. Pam Klemm Burcher/Windom