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area. In such a community, Rudy and G.A. Garver founded a store in 1866, using a log building as their premises. After a newer building was constructed in 1875, they moved into it, and an 1884 history noted their presence among seventeen other village businesses. The
Garvers remained in their sturdier building until 1902, when it was destroyed by fire, but undaunted they laid plans for its replacement. Rather than simply rebuilding what was destroyed, they arranged for the construction of a far more extensive operation, and upon its completion later in the year, the Garver Brothers Store sold everything from
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was its ruin, and the township therefore had no more settlements until
Strasburg was platted in 1828. In its early years, Strasburg was frequented by rowdy characters of poor reputation, but by the late nineteenth century, it had settled into a stable and quiet trading center for the surrounding
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