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West Street and Central Square, Keene, NH

TITLE

West Street and Central Square, Keene, NH

 

CREATOR

French & Sawyer, Keene NH

 

SUBJECT

Streets - NH - Keene

Buildings - NH - Keene

 

DESCRIPTION

Postcard of the intersection of West Street and Central Square, located in Keene New Hampshire. First called Piety Lane and then Pleasant Street, West was also known at one time as Mill Street, probably due to the extensive area covered by Faulkner & Colony Mfg. Co. Laid out about 1740, this early route left Main Street and then turned northwesterly across house lots now on the south side of West Street and entered the present West at the corner of School Street. It passed "Maccany Plain", on which West Keene is built, in its course over West Hill to Chesterfield.

The building on the corner was erected in 1832 by Elbridge Keyes and Joshua Colony as a grocery store. It moved in 1895 to the Cheshire House block.

 

PUBLISHER

Keene Public Library

 

DATE DIGITAL

20080421

 

DATE ORIGINAL

 

RESOURCE TYPE

photographic postcards

 

FORMAT

image/jpg

 

RESOURCE IDENTIFIER

hsyksts004

 

RIGHTS MANAGMENT

No known restriction on publication.

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