Lloyd Historic District - 2 - Laffitte Store Traditional Cache
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Lloyd Historic District - 2 - Laffitte Store
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This cache is one in a series that will highlight different areas
of the little known community called Lloyd and it's historic
district.
Rondeau Boyd Laffitte General Store According to Jean (Laffitte)
Wyer, grand-daughter of Rondeau Boyd Laffitte, the Laffitte family
originally came from Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South
Carolina. They had five children. The oldest, Elise Laffitte, died
in 2004 at the age of 102. Rae Bond Miller, longtime resident of
Lloyd, Florida, noted that Rondeau Boyd Laffitte came to Lloyd in
1890 to clerk for Henry Bond, Miller's grandfather, and became one
of store owners. Laffitte built a house between his store and the
Lloyd train depot. In 1912, the store was destroyed by fire, but
luckily his home had been moved in 1906 to Main Street. After the
fire, Laffitte built a smaller store farther down Main Street,
which operated until his death in 1913. It was reopened as a
pharmacy. Jerrell H. Shofner, in History of Jefferson County, noted
that in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Lloyd was the
center of a large farming and lumbering area and had at least seven
stores. In addition to Laffitte's business, the other stores were
owned by George E. Dennis, Thomas H. Lloyd, J.B. Cromartie, Walter
and Thomas H. Bond, B.L. Yon, Marion Walker, W.S. Sills, and D.B.
Mills and Company. The cache was placed with permission of the
Lloyd Community Preservation Trust, Inc. Neither Lloyd Community
Preservation Trust, Inc. nor the owners of the cache are assume any
responsibility for any liability that occurs on the property in
conjuntion with the geocache. Congradulations to Data Wrangler for
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