 Croghan's large store...was destroyed by the French and Indians in 1754.Archeological evidence shows that, by the 1750s, trade had transformed the lives of the residents of the town.Traders brought guns, metal tools, knives, saddles, hatchets, glass and ceramic beads, brooches, strouds (a kind of coarse blanket), ruffled and plain shirts, coats, clay tobacco pipes, brass and iron pots, and rum to trade for the furs and skins of deer, elk, bison, bear, beaver, raccoon, fox, wildcat, muskrat, mink and fisher.