Second E.N. Fish and Company Store
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leadhiker
N 33° 02.131 W 111° 23.241
12S E 463829 N 3655291
The second site of the E.N. Fish & Co. Mercantile Store became the Joseph Collingwood
& Co. Store and Wells Fargo Office in 1877.
Waymark Code: WM8QAQ
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2010
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Built in 1874 of unplastered adobe with pitched roofs, this second Edward Nye Fish mercantile store in Florence changed hands to become the, Joseph Collingwood & Co. Store and Wells Fargo office in 1877. Collingwood, Florence's first postmaster, had been Tucsonan E. N. Fish's Florence branch manager.
Closely resembling its original appearance, except for the exterior plaster, the building also housed the telegraph office, and in 1898 contained hotel rooms, an office, a saloon, dining room, kitchen and wagon shed. Later used for apartment units until converted into American Legion Post headquarters in 1944.
Listed, National Register of Historic Places.
This site is #10 on the self-guided Historic Florence Walking Tour.
Marker Name: E. N. Fish & Co. Store
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Pinal
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker:
Town of Florence and Arizona Historical Society.
Year placed: 1986
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