Building the Storefront
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Laborers on Main Street working on "Theo. Daigle & Bros. Hardware Store" shortly before the grand opening.
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Beyond Hammers and Nails: The Long Legacy of Theo. Daigle & Bros. Hardware Store – Supplying Church Point with the tools to build a town, 114 years and counting.
Our story starts with Joseph Ernest Daigle and his wife, Maria Madeleine Breaux Daigle, whose 12 children nearly had a monopoly over Church Point. One son, Theodore Daigle, was born in 1875, and after receiving his education in town, dabbled…