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ALFRED REAGAN PLACE-12
Alfred
Reagan was a farmer, but not only a farmer, he was a jack of all
trades. On his farm he had cattle, crops, fruit trees and timber.
He had a lot of manual skills and lots of business sense also
which he put to work in these early times. Here in the Roaring
Fork community he made coffins free of charge, he also had a
blacksmith shop where he mended things that wore out at home or
shook apart on the road. By the early 1900s Roaring Fork was large
enough to need a store, which Reagan built. He turned the store
over to his son. He also built a mill on this site because
everyone needed bread. Reagan's mill was a good one, it's
precise construction allowed it to run when others were shut down
for lack of water.
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