Brown & Hawkins Mercantile

General Store

Case Study

The Store That Started A Town Opened in 1900 and closed in 2013, The oldest family owned store in Alaska. In 1900, T.W. Hawkins, from Roanoke, Virginia, and Charles Brown, from Montreal, Canada, were sitting around the docks in Valdez, Alaska, waiting for a steam ship to go home. They had gone to Alaska for the... Read more »

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Cooperstown General Store – Cooperstown, NY

General Store

We sold the fixtures for over $5,600

This was a difficult sale as the store was located in the downtown area of a tourist town and the sale was held in the out of season when the touri… Read More

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Allens of Hastings – Hastings, NE

General Store

Total sales ran well over $1,700,000

This sale was to liquidate several departments.  The grocery department and several other departments were to stay open.  The cost of inventory t… Read More

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