John Spillman Liquor Store
80 Webster Street
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80 Webster Street once housed J. Schulmeister's drygoods & notions store, a precursor to the department stores. In later years, it housed the Schwartz menswear store. |
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50-60 Webster Street was the location of John Spillman's liquor store. Shown is a stoneware jug purchased by a Museum member for the Museum collection through E-bay. Spillman, whose name is spent both with one "l" and two "l's" in records of the time, lived at 312 Sweeney Street. He drowned in the Canal in 1905. He was a member of the carousel manufacturing Spillman family. |
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