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The Hampton railway station and Depot Square (now Marellia Square), seen from the Odd Fellows Building, early 1900s. The station was built in 1900 when the Exeter Road overpass was constructed. Passenger service ended in 1965; the site has since been…

The first Echo House, a large boarding house adjacent to the Hotel Whittier on Winnacunnet Road. Built and owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Orren Stevens, the Echo was destroyed by fire on August 15, 1913.

The face of Great Boar's Head, ca. 1899

The Edgewood Shopping Center, 350-358 Lafayette Road, about a year after its construction in 1966. The A&P Food Stores operated from this location from 1967 until 1980. They went by the official name of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. They…

The Deacon William Lane house, once one of the oldest houses in town. Built by Deacon William Lane around 1746, it was torn down in the 1950s and the site is now occupied by a service station at 747 Lafayette Road. At left is the home of Orrin L.…

The Cogger Block buildings, 1923, with Buck's Variety Store at the corner of Depot Square. Buck's was owned by Charles P. Buck and went out of business in 1924. He also dealt in real estate from this location. This location later became the first…

The center of town, looking west down Exeter Road, before 1900. In 1900 an overpass was built over the railroad crossing seen in the picture, and it remains so to this day. Most of the buildings on the left were moved including, from left, the Howard…

The Bradford Shoe Company plant on Kershaw Avenue, late 1930s. Built by town businessmen in 1935 to bring industry to town during the Depression, the Bradford Shoe Company, owned by Clarence Kershaw of Bradford, Mass., operated here until 1949, when…

Crew of a life-saving Coast Guard station, possibly in Hampton, sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner in 1905.

Women and children standing in the surf at Hampton Beach, ca. 1899