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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