Jacob Sweeney worked for a Mr. Allen who owned a furniture store located opposite the recently removed railway tracks in Yarmouth North.  The railway company at the time (approx. 1856) needed the Allen land to lay tracks across Main Street.  He decided to sell his business to Jacob Sweeney, who was 16 or 17 years old.  Jacob Sweeney  had to move the building and locate it on the present site.   In 1894 or 1895 the house just north of the present store was moved from the airport corner.  They were able to get the house to the center of Main Street (near Starrs Road Corner) before dark.  On that very night Jacob Sweeney store burnt to the ground.  The firefighters responding to the call, came onto the house left in the center of the road and were momentarily disorientated.

Following the fire,  Jacob Sweeney got a Mr. Burrell from Brooklyn to build the frame for the present building. When the frames were completed there was a building bee and in one week,  Jacob Sweeney was moving into the new building.  Eventually the business was passed onto his youngest son V.S. Sweeney.

After World War I, the Rogers family grandfather, G.O. Rogers purchased the furniture business from V.S. Sweeney. The owners at that time were Claude L. Sanderson, Lewis Chipman, Jean M. Godfry, Edgar B. Ehrgott and G.O.Rogers.

The business was run at a profit during the roaring twenties, and even declared a profit during the depression years.  Frank Rogers joined the firm in 1949.  His sons have joined the firm at different times during the 1980's, and in the fall of 1989 a major expansion and renovation took place which has made Rogers Furniture rival of any store in the Maritimes for showroom size, quality of inventory, quality of display and quality of service.  Rogers  Furniture now has over 26,000 sq.ft. of retail, display & storage floor space.