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The center of Hampton, looking north along Route One/Lafayette Road from the area of the Odd Fellows Building and Depot Square. The four large buildings shown here are still there 100 years later.

The Toppan House, 1920s. Mary C. (Toppan) Clark operated a hoarding house on the corner of Lafayette and Winnacunnet Roads. After her marriage to Lewis P. Clark in 1928 it became known as Clark's Tourist House. Mary Clark died in 1956 and the James…

The second Hotel Echo, 30 Winnacunnet Road, built in 1918 on the site of the first, which was destroyed by fire in September 1913. For the first few years this was known as the Echo House. It changed its name to the Hotel Echo by 1921. In April 1923…

The Savory Street Restaurant, July 1970, at the south comer of Lafayette and Winnacunnet Roads. Formerly the Mustard Pot Restaurant, it became Savory Street when purchased by Mike and Kay Tinios. At the time it was strictly a fast-food restaurant,…

The Ring Swamp Cemetery on Park Avenue, c. 1896. This was the town's second cemetery, laid out in 1797, the first interment being that of Joshua Towle who died that year. The earliest existing gravestone dates from 1800, and the most recent from…

The old Toppan farm at 340 Lafayette Road, probably in the 1940s. From 1837 to 1849 Edmund Toppan was Hampton's postmaster, and the town's second post office was located here. During the 1930s and '40s Christopher Toppan operated a boarding house…

A view south down Lafayette Road from the town center, early 1900s. From here the trolley tracks headed south to Winnacunnet Road, then out to the Beach or south to Massachusetts. The Odd Fellows Building is at the right. A trolley car can be seen on…

The Merrill Block, early 1900s, also known as the Post Office Block. Built by Dr. William T. Merrill in 1889, this block housed the post office, among other businesses, for many years. In this picture the E.G. Cole grocery and hardware store and…

The Lafayette Road bridge over the Taylor River, near the border with Hampton Falls, ca. 1896. The Hampton Causeway Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808 to build a permanent road over the marshes to Hampton Falls. For a number of years it was a…

The Jenness blacksmith shop, 284 Winnacunnet Road, c. 1850 to 1890s. Prior to being owned and operated by Simon L. Jenness and his son Abbott, this was the shop of Thomas Lane, born in 1785. It was located near the west corner of the intersection…