 In the late 1780s, John Cannon (1752–1802) established the Old Red Store, later known as the Cannon Store.The building survives, preserved behind a home on Danbury Road.The exact original location of the store is not known, although many believe it was at the site of a small (100-by-150-foot), oval, man-made pond on the west side of Danbury Road, just south of its intersection with Olmstead Hill Road.