Fraser Department Store
The Parma-Hilton Historical Society will meet on Monday, January 12, at 7 p.m. Parma and Hilton Historian Dave Crumb will give a presentation on the Fraser Department Store.
From 1875 to 1941, brothers Allan and Evan Fraser operated a store in Hilton (which was called North Parma until 1895). It began as a small general store in the old Tennison Block on the corner of Main Street and South Avenue. Riding the wave of prosperity that the arrival of the new R.W. & O. Railroad brought to Hilton, the store relocated and grew to one of the largest country stores in Western New York for a town the size of Hilton. There was good luck and bad luck in this operation, but over the years, it prospered and served the greater community diligently until the Great Depression, the automobile, and good roads signaled its decline and final closure in 1941.
The meeting will be held in the Ingham Room at the Hilton Community Center, 59 Henry Street. Presentations are free and open to the public.
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