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Rudy's Farm Kitchen restaurant, 777-779 Lafayette Road, was in business in the 1930s and '40s. The Partridge Apartments and Garden Apartments were here later, as well as Sousa's BP station. The buildings are now gone and the site is occupied by…

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.…

Nichols Poultry Farm, in the former Bradford Shoe building on Kershaw Avenue, c. 1950s. This plant was used by the Nichols chain of chicken-breeding and egg-hatching plants as a distribution center. Here the eggs were graded, sorted, and stored to…

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…

Gale's Garage and Pan-Am gasoline station, 641 Lafayette Road. Built by Floyd and Clara Gale in 1925, they sold the business in 1944 to Lawrence Hackett, who opened Hackett Chevrolet. The building was torn down in March 2003. It is now (2007) the…

The Work-Rite Garage, 575 Lafayette Road, after 1915. Owner Lawrence Hackett later moved his business up the road to 641 Lafayette, where he operated a Chevrolet dealership. Several businesses have since operated on this site, but this building no…

The Samuel D. Lane farm, 567 Lafayette Road, ca 1890. Gus Parker, a farmhand, is pictured with oxen and cart.

Lamie's Tavern as it looked in the 1930s or '40s. The building at left, originally the Joshua A. Lane store, has since been more fully integrated into the main building. It is occupied here by Lamie's Pastry Shoppe. Lamie's Inn is still in business…

The traffic signal in the center of town, with the Lane Block at left, looking east on High Street. The first traffic lights in town were installed in 1924, and were replaced by new ones in 1930. Written at the base of the sign is "Boston", with an…

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…