The Wayne Museum

Hammond Store:
This 1912 picture of a horse drawn delivery wagon is very different from the “Door Dash” which you may be more familiar with. The wagon was driven by Dan Johnson and comes from the Hammond General Store in the Mountain View section of Wayne. The store made local deliveries by horse and buggy. Tobin reports that Harry Hammond worked as a store clerk, and then opened a general store in Mountain View on Newark-Pompton Turnpike (across from the Mead House). See the second picture, circa 1911 and the third picture, 1918. Charles Hammond, Lena Vander Wende, and Harry Hammond are pictured left to right in the second picture. The store also contained a post office and the first telephone in the area. The Hammond Family lived upstairs. The store was a popular spot to “hang out” for all ages.
For additional reading on the Mountain View section of Wayne, see “Images of America, Wayne Township”, by Cathy Tobin, Arcadia Publishing, 2001, pgs. 25-48.