13 Colonial Small Businesses Making a Big Comeback Today

Posted by lyceum under Startups
From http://smallbiztrends.com 3421 days ago
Made Hot by: blogexpert on July 8, 2015 7:20 am

Small businesses have been at the core of America’s economy since people started calling this place America.
If you weren’t making it yourself, there was a shopkeeper in the middle of town peddling the wares you needed. Wagon running a little wobbly? Take it to a wheelwright.
Well, you’d be hard-pressed to find a qualified wheelwright today. Some jobs that were essential at the time of the American Revolution don’t really have a place in today’s world.
But a lot of them do. And some trades and businesses have never been without demand. Here are 13 trades and businesses popular at the time of the American Revolution and again today.