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Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc. (1936-)

 

Biography

In January, 1936, 17 charter members founded the Hanover Consumer's Club, acting on a series of discussions begun in December, 1935. The first executive committee of the Hanover Consumer's Club consisted of Roy Chamberlin (President), Helen Morse (Vice-President), Charles Bagley (Secretary), Roger Bristol (Treasurer), and Elliott White (Business Manager). Initially, the Hanover Consumer's Club functioned as a "buying club," purchasing potatoes, oranges, and maple syrup in large quantities and selling them to members at cost, as well as obtaining discounted gas, oil, and coal. The Hanover Consumer's Club was incorporated in 1937, as the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society. The first Co-op store was located in a basement on Main Street, under what is now Eastman's Drug Store. After a few years, it moved to the current site of the Dartmouth Bookstore. In 1963, in response to parking problems, it moved to its present location at the intersection of South Park and Lebanon Streets. In 1985, it bought the Mobil gas station on South Park Street and turned it into the Co-op Service Center. In 1995, it built a second Service Center on Lyme Road. In 1997, in response to overcrowding at its Hanover store, the Co-op added a second grocery store in Lebanon. In May 1999, the Co-op transformed the Lyme Road Service Center into a combination gas station / convenience store, renaming it the Co-op Community Food Market.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-840
MS-840
Date(s): 1936 to 2016
Abstract

The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society (HCCS) Records contain Board of Directors meeting minutes, Co-op News bulletins, documents related to the establishment and expansion of the Co-op, including HCCS bylaws and amendments, correspondence from New England Cooperatives, Inc., financial summaries and annual reports, as well as photographs and a scrapbook.

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