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The Aragon Brothers Store




Now only ruins, the rear room was built of stone and constructed sometime before 1878. During the early 1880s, this building housed the White Elephant Saloon, operated by Ben Ellis. Merchant John Whelan operated a store here from about 1885 until sometime in the late 1890s, during which time the Ozanne Stage from White Oaks to Lincoln used the building as its stop. From August 1901 until 1913, the Aragon brothers, Jacobo and Manuel, ran a feed store and general mercantile here. Between 1914 and 1927, the Lincoln post office was located in this building before being moved to the Penfield Store. Gradually enlarged with adobe, it served as a store, a livery stable, and by the 1930s as an automotive garage. Abandoned in the 1950s, it stood vacant until the early 1970s when the structure collapsed.

