Nice business opportunity

 Ad from the Brookville American, June 15, 1835

MERCANTILE HOUSE

FOR SALE

I will offer at public auction on the first day of August next, a large and convenient property in the town of Fairfield, Franklin county, Indiana. This property is well situated for the mercantile business as any that can be found in the west, the property is nearly new, built expressly for a Store, with two good dwelling houses attached to it. The store house and one of the dwellings are two-story brick, under the same roof. In short, any person wishing to purchase such property would do well to see it before the day of sale.

The condition of the sale will be one third in hand, the balance in two equal payments. Further conditions will be made known on the day of sale by

JOHN PROBASCO

N.B. The property has been and is now occupied as a store with a fine business the purchaser can have immediate possession.

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The ad does not say who owned the property or what price was being asked. It’s doubtful the structure endured into the 20^th century and was probably destroyed by one of the several fires that hit the town in those days.

John Probasco appears to have been a horse trader and his name is connected to sales of horses in Franklin County at that time. I can’t find another connection to Fairfield. It’s possible he owned the stores. He was from Warren County, Ohio.

I don’t know the meaning of “N.B.”