Hiram Hutchinson
This file appears in: 2. Hutch’s Trading Post: the First Store on Lopez
Hiram arrived Lopez in the early 1860s and started a Trading Post at the mouth of Fisherman Bay.
This file appears in: 2. Hutch’s Trading Post: the First Store on Lopez
2. Hutch’s Trading Post: the First Store on Lopez – Public Shore Access on Weeks Point Way
Just a few steps from here, Hiram Hutchinson ran the first grocery store (or trading post) on Lopez Island. The store offered staple goods such as flour, sugar, coffee, gunpowder and tobacco. “Hi” or “Hutch,” as he was called, came to Lopez in the…