Ellis Store Site Colrain
An account book of a pre-Revolutionary retail store and potash works (?) is in the archives of the Colrain Historical Society. Ellis Store ledge CHS #3583 The old ledger records sales of retail goods like "broadcloth" in exchange for work,and in many cases for wood ashes. The owner, Richard Ellis, probably processed ashes into potash. The ledger covers 12 years of sales from 1765 to 1777. The ledger is described in the 1888 Ellis family history: OK..... but where was this store? The accession card at CHS (below) says "on the west side of the road between Apte [Nims 2025] and the old Hale home [Hale Johnson in 2000s]. ================================================================= There is an old cellar hole on the west side of Greenfield Road, at the south end of the Nims property, within eyesight of the "Hale Johnson" house. The photo below shows it April 10, overgrown with nasty briars. Over the last few weeks, with the landowne...