Over the years, The Lloyd Company has sold everything from farm tractors to scented candles to couches. When Byron Lloyd's grandfather, Floyd Drummond, began the business as Drummond Implement Co. in the late 1930s, he sold farm implements, GMC trucks, Pontiac automobiles and a full selection of hardware.

His grandfather opened stores in Portsmouth, Washington Court House, Chillicothe and Hillsboro, but the store in Bainbridge remained the primary store. "At one time, he was the largest implement dealer in the world,” Lloyd says.

His parents, Ed and Jane Lloyd, took over the store in 1956 and changed the name to The Lloyd Co. They expanded the hardware department and his mother added a gift collection.

At that time, the implement business was changing with more factory-owned stores. So his parents gave up that segment of the business, but still sold Pontiacs.

In the early 1970's his parents gave up the Pontiac dealershipand changed the automobile showroom into a furniture section.

"I started working here when I was big enough to push buttons on a cash register,” Lloyd says. By 1990, he took over the business, and in 1993, he opened a Chillicothe store on Water Street.

The Bainbridge store still sells hardware along with gifts, household goods, collectibles and furniture.

The store is unusal, in that it only has one sale a year, on New Year's Day. Instead of holding constant sales, the furniture is always sold at 40 percent below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. On the yearly, one-day sale, the store is packed!