Broders General Store (Site)

These coordinates mark the exact spot where the store once stood. No visible remains exist.


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Here follows the recollections of Lillian Louise Simms Javins as excerpted from the Fall 2005 "Franconia Legacies" newsletter published by the Franconia Museum:

"Down on Franconia Road by the RF&P Railroad was a store owned by Mr. Will Broders. He lived across from the store with his wife, Nellie and daughters, Evelyn and Dorothy. They sold most everything and it was also the precinct where everyone had to go to vote. We voted on paper and dropped it into a box. It closed at 6:00 p.m. and it was always a very busy day. Evelyn married a neighborhood boy, Woodrow Smith, and they had one daughter, Mary Evelyn. Mary Evelyn remembers the store being torn down."