Grandma's Gun and Her Sister

[Bill Murphy]

For those of you who use google earth and other streetscape research tools, Uncle Billys store was established in 1877 and was, and is, at 207 1/2 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. A short description of the Wagner business is included in "Historical Sketches of the Capital City of our Country" an 1878 book by John P. Coffin.

[Bill Murphy]

I googled "william wagner historical sketches john coffin" and got the page reference to the long paragraph describing Wagner's business. By the way, Peter Johnson described a business on Pennsylvania Avenue on Capitol Hill in his book, but did not describe Wagner Hardware by name. I would be interested to know whom Johnson interviewed to come up with that obscure piece of information. The Parker records were not available to him and only a very few William Wagner orders included his street address.

[Researcher]

The other gent in the picture with Kevin is not me, I was taking the picture. The guy with the other gun was from the Burgh.

Dave