On November 6, 1871 George Moorhead’s furniture works and Charles Bennet’s cabinet factory on the north side of King street between Richmond and Clarence, are destroyed in a $100,000 fire. About 100 workmen are temporarily thrown out of work. Moorhead rebuilds on a more extensive scale with a frontage of 200ft along King Street. The Moorhead Manufacturing Co. fails in June 1878 and is purchased by Frederick A Fitzgerald and Charles P Smith.
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Image Source: Joseph O’Neil
Info Source: ‘Fragments from the Forks’ by Dan Brock
