A plan for the Town Centre (1915)
Since the police station proposal has everyone focused on the “centre” of town, it’s fun to study a civic improvement plan from 1915.
- Police? How do you spell that?
- Fire? How do you spell that?
- Pond instead of bandstand.
- Baseball diamond.
- Tennis court across from current post office.
- Dearborn Road is a “proposed street.”
- Town scale is on the island near today’s fire station. It’s visible in the old photo below.
- Simonds Park is referred to as an “orchard park.”
- This was drawn by Massachusetts Agricultural College, now known as UMass Amherst.
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Where is that State Road house?
The two banks beside the fire station replaced the house
Sounds like we’re talking about Charlie Dearborn’s house.
If you by the State Road house, the house on the left, it was split in two in 1920. One half of it was moved 13 Sears St, the other half to 2 Mill St.
What a shame that the old way is gone
there was a baseball field on the common in the early -mid 60’s. mplayed there when in minor league little league 1964.