 Some other store “firsts” were B. O. Esping's jewelry store, D. E. Potter's furniture store, Mark Baldwin's harness shop, (John) Vander Horck and (Smith D.) King's hardware store, and Harrington and Lynn's Bank of Litchfield, which closed in 1877.Lewis L. Nyholm laid the first cement sidewalk in Litchfield in 1895 in the 200 block of Sibley Avenue.Before that, of course, any sidewalks in town were made of wood.