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The Fire of 1872

On the morning of October 9, 1872, there occurred a fire which destroyed several of the business structures in the heart of the village, and which was quite a severe blow to Farmington; more disastrous than any of the kind which she ever experienced. The buildings destroyed were a dwelling and shoe-shop, owned by Miss Lester, the shop being occupied by ___ Saxton; a store, owned by P. Dean Warner, and occupied by Porter Shepherd; a small wooden building, owned and occupied by Miss Pierman as a millinery-store, the stone stores of W. B. Selby and Oliver B. Smith, the latter being occupied by Wesley Horton, and a hall over the store by the Masonic lodge; a drug-store, owned and occupied by Dr. E. Woodman; a blacksmith-shop, and a barn and carriage-house in the rear. The stores of Selby and of O. B. Smith were joined as a block and were the same which were erected in 1850 by Warren E. Selby and Joshua Simmons. Mr. Warner at once rebuilt upon his lots the substantial and most creditable building known as Warner's block, and good buildings have been erected on nearly all the area which was devastated by the fire. It was in this conflagration that the township records were consumed.