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In tracing records in North Walpole it is helpful to remember that Levi Chapin bought most of the area; that his sons Levi and Jonathan had it after him; that Jonathan was unmarried; that Levi's property descended to his daughter Cynthia who married Albert F. Nims; and that their daughter Mary married Almon I. Bolles.
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1. ESTATE OF FRANCES C. HICKS: In 1818 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold to Thomas Redington nine rods square here, which in 1831 his heirs sold to Susan Robeson, first daughter of Joseph Bellows.
In 1815 she had married Major Jonas Robeson, merchant of Fitz- william, a widower with four children in their teens, two girls and two boys. Major Robeson died only six years after their marriage, leaving her with a boy and a girl of her own also. After her step-children married, she returned to Walpole and shortly afterward planned and had Levi Hub- bard build this house, the first of its type in Walpole designed for a small family. In its plan she retained the dignity, true worth and charm characteristic of the larger colonial homes of her time.
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"On the night of Mrs. Robeson's death it so happened that there was to be a brilliant torch light procession to encourage the election of Abraham Lincoln for president (first campaign). Every house around the Common was to be brightly lighted. As the twilight settled down, she asked why her windows were not lighted. When it was explained that she would perhaps rest better in a dimly lighted room, she smiled and said, 'Let every pane of glass in every window of this house be lighted at once if there are candles enough in town to do it.'" She died before morning.
In 1862 the property was sold to Frederick Vose who lived there with his sister Miss Catherine. In 1876 Jonas Tufts, who had previously lived on Prospect, acquired the property. He had come from South Charles- town, having owned there a large brick house which stood on the meadow. His wife was Sarah Labaree, descendant of Peter Labaree who was captured by the Indians with the Johnson family in 1754 and taken to Canada, and sister of Rev. Benjamin Labaree who was president of Middlebury College for 20 years and who lived next door in 1880-83. Mr. Tufts has been described as parsimonious. The girls in the family had but one summer silk among them; Clara had that because she was marrying Rufus Buffum. Susan and her mother blossomed out after Jonas died. Martha Tufts Bandell lived here, the last of the Tufts family to live in town. In 1932 the property was sold to P. Lucile Hawley, a schoolteacher who was interested in antiques. As the wife of Alba M. Bragg she lived here and in the barn had her Treasure Loft, dealing in antiques and colonial wallpaper. In 1943 P. Lucile Hawley Bragg sold to Frances Hicks.
2. HAROLD O. PIERCE: While Mrs. Bragg owned #1 she bought Robert Moore's cottage in Westmoreland, had it carefully taken apart and set up here, replacing parts that had deteriorated. In 1946 she sold to Harold O. and Louise F. Pierce.
In 1823 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold to Nathaniel Holland all of that tract of land surrounded by Main, Turnpike, Elm and Westminster Streets except the following: the Lincoln lot on the north, the Stephen Rice and Robeson lots on Elm Street. Included were "buildings thereon and being same premises Holland now occupies as a tavern containing three acres, excepting a lease for erecting and maintaining hay scales". Holland sold in 1833 to George Huntington who was then occupying the tavern stand, and Huntington sold off lots along Westminster Street, and north of the tavern on Main Street.
3. GUY H. BEMIS: In 1833 George Huntington sold this lot to Aaron P. Howland, a skillful carpenter and cabinet-maker who built this brick
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house and sold it in 1842 to Anson Dale. Otis Bardwell, who had lived in Mabel Cole's house #27 on North Main Street for 25 years, bought the house in 1844 and moved here with his second wife. In 1886 his heirs sold to Alfred W. Burt; George F. Burt inherited the property, after which it was sold to Jennie M. Spaulding (Mrs. Frank A.) in 1895. Their son Russell S. Spaulding sold in 1938 to Guy Bemis.
4. CHESTER R. WING: George Huntington sold in 1834 to Jonathan Wey- mouth, tailor, who probably built the two-story brick house, although some say that Silas M. Bates built it. The former seems more likely since there was a house here during Weymouth's ownership, according to deeds. He mortgaged to David Buffum who took possession in 1837, selling in 1845 to Abel Bellows; in 1854 to Silas M. Bates. In 1874, when an elaborate trust was set up and the Henry Griswolds (Eliza A.) lived here, it came to be known as the Griswold place. In 1891 the property came to Anna Griswold Hale (Mrs. Charles) who had removed to Ben- son, Minnesota. She sold in 1891 to Benjamin E. Webster; 1895 to Abbie M. Lebourveau; 1905 to Mrs. Addie M. Cole (widow); 1916 to Violet G. Wilson; 1932 to Marion and Reginald Cahalane; 1934 to Josiah Wilson (Violet G.) of Claremont; 1939 to Savings Bank of Walpole; 1939 to Anson H. Kendall whose widow Dorothy B. Kendall sold 1946 to George and Shirley A. Morton; 1948 to Robert L. and Dorothy N. Gallo- way; 1949 to Norma Lee Varzos who died; 1957 Edward Varzos, widower, sold to Mary Louise Wing. For some years it was used as an annex to the Walpole Inn and is now made into apartments.
5. ROBERT GALLOWAY-TIN SHOP, LOT: In 1833 George Huntington sold to A. P. Howland the land next east of #4 including tin shop and village store; in 1835 Howland to Susan Jones 19 ft. running east from the pas- sageway between this lot and #4. Howland already had a tin shop here. Susan Jones married David Strader, removed to Kane County, Illinois. She sold in 1845 to Charles Lord of Walpole. In 1847 he had removed to Westmoreland (wife, Julia Ann) and sold to Haskell Buffum of West- moreland; 1849 to Seth B. Cragin (Susan M.); 1853 to Silas M. Bates; 1885 his estate to John C. Howard; 1892 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1900 to Fred F. Chandler; 1914 to Fred A. Metcalf and Clarence W. Houghton; 1921 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1927 to Charles W. Morse; 1927 to Adolphus R. Stevens; 1940 to Galloway-Ratte Company, now Galloway.
The shop was leased much of the time. In 1873 L. U. Holt sold his stock of tinware and stoves to B. P. Owen, who lived upstairs. His wife was an illiterate woman prone to use of words beyond her ken, such as,
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"Every woman in town will prostitute herself on your steps." Owen was followed by Sterling who for many years sold ranges, furnaces, stoves, pumps, lead pipe, kitchen furnishings, tin, copper and sheet iron ware, was agent for American Papier-Mâché wares, and did jobbing tin and sheet metal work. His wife had a very stout sister who visited her from time to time, and who was known as "The Great Eastern."
In 1877 Blaisdell and Barley put into Owen's tin shop one of their elevating refrigerators, useful in summer with ice, in winter without, making easy communication with cellar.
The express office was formerly in a building back of the shop, de- stroyed by fire in 1881.
6. RANDALL P. DANIELS: Village Store-In 1842 A. P. Howland sold to William C. Sherman and Amherst K. Maynard; 1851 Sherman sold out to Maynard; 1884 Maria G. Maynard to Mary E. and Lizzie M. Maynard; 1885 to John C. Howard who also owned the tin shop next west. In 1891 he sold to Edward A. Knowlton; 1891 and 1895 to Charles H. Cannon of Providence. In 1903 Cannon sold to George F. Chandler and Carrie L. Knowlton (Mrs. Warren D.), Cannon having moved to Redlands, Cal- ifornia; 1925 and 1929 to Emma S. Graves; 1962 to Randall Daniels. (C. R. Wing had the store previously.)
This was for many years A. K. Maynard's boot and shoe store. Up- stairs he had several men employed in manufacturing his stock. He was postmaster through many administrations (Democratic), losing the posi- tion when Lincoln was elected president. Because of ill-health he sold his stock in 1873. In January 1877 there was a fire here. At that time the Hinds family was occupying the upstairs tenement, S. J. Armstrong the boot and shoe store on the first floor, and Albert Knight was a cobbler here then. The premises were in bad repute at that time. After the fire Chandler and Lebourveau opened a meat market. In 1879 William B. Clark opened a furniture store here after being burned out in Charles- town. The same year Herod W. Brown opened an oyster saloon in the basement, serving nothing stronger than tea or coffee.
While Howard owned the building, he made a dancing hall upstairs for his wife who was a dancing teacher. Howard had a drug store here with Natt Wheeler of Bellows Falls, operating it 1894-98.
The Knowltons had a jewelry shop and did watch repairing. Later for many years this was the Peck Drug Store. The present proprietor oper- ates a lunch counter and sells groceries and general merchandise.
WALPOLE FIRE DISTRICT: The lot next east Mrs. Emma Graves sold in
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1952 for the erection of the new fire station which stands back from the street on the site of the old livery stable.
8. GEORGE R. HARRIS-THRIFT SHOP (formerly Leaf & Lens): In 1853 James L. Mitchell of Albany, New York, bought land here from George Huntington. The building that was formerly William Mitchell's barber shop, and later John W. Lovejoy's store, and had been located on the site of the bank on the south side of Westminster Street, was moved here. Lovejoy was still occupying the store in 1867. He was considered a dis- agreeable man but the gravity of his demeanor is said to have been due to chronic ill-health.
In 1883 the Mitchell Estate sold to Thomas Dinsmore of Alstead who owned the hotel lot; 1897 to John A. Weber. His family had come to Walpole when he was a child and lived at #281 (Lawrence Graves). After attending No. 9 School, he continued at Bryant & Stratton Business Col- lege in Manchester. During the summers he worked on the farm and in the winter taught penmanship. He commenced business in Walpole in 1893 in the Ordway Block, buying C. C. Davis' printing outfit. In 1897 he bought this building and expanded his printing business and stock of merchandise: confectionery, stationery, tinware, notions. In March 1926 he went downstairs after a hod of coal. The effort exhausted him, and he remarked to Mr. Kenyon, "I guess that was too much for me," and died instantly. He was a Unitarian, a staunch prohibitionist, and treasurer of the Grange for 25 years. His wife was a descendant of John Wier and the Moses Burt family.
In 1926 Fred A. Metcalf bought the property with Reginald F. Caha- lane. By 1931 Cahalane was sole owner of the property which was pur- chased by Russell S. Spaulding in 1933, he selling to the present owner in 1946. W. W. Shackley had had a barber shop here for 35 years.
For many years Ransom Ball had his shoe store here. The post office and library were in the back of the store. During the early 1870's Warren P. Chapin, photographer, had his studio upstairs. Today there is a barber shop upstairs.
9. BERNARD P. O'CONNER, RUTH M. LATHAM-TAVERN LOT: In 1838 George Huntington was leasing the tavern on the corner of Westminster and Main Streets to Justus W. Brown. He sold in 1854 to Calvin J. Holden (Caroline A.); 1855 to Elijah Holbrook of Surry (wife, Eliza Ann); 1860 to George R. Makepeace (Emeline D.); February 1865 to Henry Justin Stowell of Bos- ton; December 1865 to Morgan J. Sherman (Sarah S.); 1866 to Horace A. Perry; 1877 to George E. Richards of Winchester, N. H., and Willie M.
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Moore of Northfield, Mass .; 1878 to Charles G. Maynard; 1888 to Thomas Dinsmore of Boston, Mass .; 1903 Dinsmore Estate to Mary C. T. Fay of Milton, Mass .; 1904 to George E. Sherman; 1916 to John A. Gould and Frank A. Moore; 1923 to Grade D. Fisher of Medford, Mass., who mort- gaged to former owners; mortgage foreclosed 1926 and Moore interests sold to Edward F. and Bernard P. O'Connor of Rockingham, Vermont; 1949 to Bernard P. O'Connor. In 1950 O'Connor leased part of the property to Gulf Oil Corporation for filling station. In 1952 Bernard P. and Mary L. O'Connor sold to Marion G. and Edward F. Reardon the land and small building in back. In 1955 Reardon took over the oil busi- ness and gas station which had been erected here, buying from O'Connor, and in 1957 bought the property where the postoffice is, the north part of the lot on Main Street. 1959 Bernard P. and Mary O'Conner purchased. The north part of the building is occupied by the postoffice and the south part is used for a restaurant and a self-service laundry, the latter having been established in 1960. 1961 restaurant-postoffice building sold to Ruth M. Latham.
In 1858 there was a drug store on the corner. Around 1874 the hotel was refurbished and there was a bowling alley in back.
10. AMY N. YANIZYN: The brick building, now Yanizyn, and the house next north are on land out of the old tavern lot, northeast corner, sold out of the old lot. In 1853 Huntington sold to James M. Burroughs, wheelwright, the land where the brick building, which Burroughs prob- ably built, stands; 1855 to Thomas Murphy (Mary Ann). In 1858 he bought a small piece of property on the south from Holbrook who then owned the tavern property. Murphy, who was a blacksmith, and had his shop in the brick building, sold in 1865 to Israel Stowell (Achsah); 1866 to Ira Hooper (Ellen F.); 1867 to Lenas Hopkins of Westmoreland includ- ing all stock in trade (blacksmith tools); 1872 estate to Hubbard Newton; 1877 to DeWitt Clinton Ordway; 1916 (Ordway of Waltham) to Alexan- der Bain; 1944 to Jacob and Amy N. Yanizyn. She now owns the dwelling.
Mrs. Ordway was a Grant from Alstead, a bit peculiar; son Clinton was wont to play his violin and sing off key. The shop was rented much of the time. In 1873 B. P. Dickinson of Colebrook, carriage-painter, opened a shop over G. W. Blake's blacksmith shop. This was closed August 1874. Willard & Holton opened a wheelwright shop March 1875. In November 1883 Raymond of Keene opened an oyster saloon in the basement and installed a new pool table in the front room. The dedica- tion extended into the early hours of Sunday morning, the dedicators seeming to have partaken of something stronger than oyster broth.
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11. EMMA M. REED: In 1834 George Huntington sold the northeast cor- ner of his tavern lot, 41 feet along Main Street, 50 feet deep, to Parks Marvin who had a cabinet shop here in 1835. In 1836 Marvin sold to John S. Gallup, physician, who had a horse, gig and cow; 1836 to Stephen Woodbury; 1838 to Aaron P. Howland; 1842 to Abel Bellows who rented the house in 1853 to Monroe and 1855 to Thos. Taine; 1855 to Thomas Murphy who probably lived here and had his blacksmith shop next south; 1858 to Hubbard Newton; 1859 Newton made over the place to Fannie L. Wheeler of the south part of town, whom he subsequently married; 1893 to Nancy (Mrs. Henry) Podwin; 1897 to Dennis J. Griffin; 1899 his estate to Carl Smith; 1901 to Frank A. Spaulding; 1931 to An- drew Heath; 1934 to Newell G. Holden who sold to Elizabeth (Mrs. Everett) MacNutt that same year; 1942 to Ernest A. and Emma MacNutt Reed, Mrs. Reed coming into possession at the death of Mr. Reed.
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In 1791 John Crafts, trader, sold to Samuel Grant, saddler, one acre 37 rods which extended west from Main Street, next north of the Murphy- Reed house. There was no Turnpike then. Crafts had a shop on Main Street a rod north of the southeast corner of the lot, probably the shop that is near Mabel Cole's house (#27). In 1801 Grant sold to William Pierce, shoemaker. In 1821 Evi Pierce of Winchester, guardian of Harriot King Pierce and Oliver B. Pierce of Keene, minors, sold the real estate of the late William Pierce of Keene to Christopher Lincoln.
Lincoln was a tailor who had come from Boston in 1818 and set up business in the shop formerly occupied by Mr. Williston in the chamber over the Walpole Book Store. In October 1830, returning from Court at Keene with a party, he was thrown from a wagon at the foot of the hill coming down into Christian Hollow and received such injuries that he died October 11. The family continued to live in Walpole for 20 years. In 1834 Eliza Lincoln sold to Abel Bellows the east point of her land on the Turnpike; 1835 to Eleanor Blake; 1868 to Henry W. S. Griswold; 1868 to Silas M. Bates.
Jason and Francis French, carriage makers, bought the following on the south side of Turnpike: in 1842 a carriage shop next west of the Lincolns'; in 1844 a little sliver out of the northwest corner of Lincolns', including their house; in 1845 a quarter acre next east, the full depth of the Lincoln lot. In 1847 Francis bought out Jason's share in the business of carriage and sleigh making. They recommended the Concord wagon for business and pleasure. According to AH 107 the French brothers were
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carrying on carriage manufacture in the second floor of Reed's tannery when it burned September 1847. In February 1848 we note that, having been burned out at his old carriage and sleigh shop, Francis French was reopening at a new stand opposite Pool's blacksmith shop. He needed two journeymen. This would have been at the site we have been discuss- ing. In the 1850 census he was listed as a sleigh and carriage maker in Walpole. Francis and Julia French sold the property here in 1854 to Alanson D. Comstock (Mary S.); in 1855 to Silas M. Bates.
The carriage shop, which belonged to George C. Ewing, was new in 1834.
He had in this shop in 1836 the following: one 12-passenger coach, one coach body, one chaise, one waggon, two fancy buggies, two plain buggies, eight unfinished fancy buggies, four unfinished plain buggies, four unfinished waggons, two unfinished barouches, two two-seat unfinished buggies, two single sleighs, one Pedler's waggon, two common harnesses, three fancy harnesses; boards, timber and wood in yard; stock, lumber, timber in barn; stock (trimmings) in house; stock in trimming shop; stock, paints, oils, tools in paint shop; stock and tools in wood shop, together with tools in blacksmith shop. He was still in business here in 1840, but he may have lost-he was borrowing heavily.
In 1842 Abel Bellows began selling the property to the Frenches.
All of the Lincoln and French property eventually came into the ownership of Silas Bates and/or Benjamin Aldrich in connection with their shirt factory. On the 1858 map the following places are shown (east to west): Miss Blake (Gilman now, #12); G. Fuller (Larsen now, #13); H. A. Hitchcock carriage and paint shop, opposite the west end of North Street. There are no deeds here to Hitchcock, he must have leased from Silas Bates. Next west is marked Bates. Both are shown as fairly long buildings, side to the street. One was probably the old carriage shop. Bates and Aldrich formed a partnership for the manufacture of shirts and had the following buildings here.
On the present Odd Fellows lot there were the Laundry and Shirt Factory and to the south the Engine House, both close to the west line. The steam engine also furnished power for the grist mill, a building some 22 feet long in the southwest corner of the Larsen lot (#13). The boarding house stood on the lot next west, now Kittredge, #15.
After the shirt business failed in 1876, there was a new deal of lots as follows:
12. WILLOBE GILMAN: The east point of the Lincoln property, south side of Turnpike, Silas M. Bates sold in 1869 to Marcellus O. Jennings; 1873 to Hubbard B. Newton; 1880 to Jane, Anna J. and Lizzie S. Hitchcock;
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1884 to Frances A. Griffin; 1894 her heirs Ella J. Bond and Frances A. Mann, daughters, sold to Julia Rogers; 1896 to Abbie E. Chappell; 1923 her widower, David C. King, to Everett L. Houghton; 1926 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1931 to Willobe F. Gilman.
13. HARRY J. LARSEN: This was the Lincoln cottage. In 1877 Silas M. Bates and Benjamin F. Aldrich sold a quarter-acre here, next west of Gilman lot, to Marcia E. Allen; 1890 her heirs to Samuel E. Hubbard; 1928 his heirs to Harry Larsen, a grandson-in-law of Samuel E. Hubbard. All of this piece was out of the Lincoln land.
14. MOUNT KILBURN LODGE, I.O.O.F .: In 1882 Silas M. Bates sold to Nora Walsh the old shirt factory buildings (reserving the washing machine, ironing machine, starching machine and stone sinks). Thomas Walsh had previously had the blacksmith shop on north side of street which was in bad shape when they bought this property. He fixed up the engine house as a new shop. He had served his apprenticeship in Cork, had come to America in 1872, had worked for several years in New York and Boston, and then had come to Walpole. His temper is said to have been the biggest part of him. In November 24, 1886, while he was at work with several customers around, fire of unknown origin broke out in the upper part of the blacksmith shop. The shop and ell of the house were consumed; the main part of the house was saved (old laundry building) but dam- aged by fire and smoke. He rebuilt. In 1888 he rented to Charles An- drews and removed to Bellows Falls. William Warren was occupying when the Walshes sold 1894 to Alexander Rattray; 1894 to Frank J. Grif- fin; 1907 to Edwin K. Seabury; 1912 his estate to Michael W. Murray of Newton, Massachusetts; 1916 to Mt. Kilburn Lodge, I.O.O.F., who oc- cupied the old laundry building which the Walshes had turned halfway around in 1882.
15. ARTHUR J. KITTREDGE: Next west of the I.O.O.F. property Silas Bates sold in 1883 to Edwin K. Seabury. In 1884 Seabury sold to Dennis Griffin the old boarding house building and ell to make into a dwelling, ac- cording to a news item, but other sources say it was torn down. In 1923 the Griffin Estate sold to William E. Pierce; 1923 to Andrew C. Griffin; 1925 to Batt Reil; 1928 to Mary Sullivan Reil. In 1940 Mortimer J. and William J. Sullivan had inherited the property from their mother, Mary Sullivan Reil, and sold in 1935 to Mary E. Mason; 1944 to Robert A. and Barbara Lee Nash; 1950 to Walter C. Jr. and Florence E. Kilburn; 1956 to Arthur J. and Ruth E. Kittredge.
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16. JOHN J. LAWLOR: This was the northeast part of a lot Dr. Ebenezer Morse and Esther Morse sold in 1818 to William Mitchell; 1821 to Ste- phen Rowe Bradley; 1821 to David Danforth, blacksmith, who lived on the west side of the lot (maybe he had a shop here); 1832 to Otis Bard- well; 1834 to George Ewing. Ewing built a carriage shop on the east part of the lot and sold 1837 to William Robbins. On the 1858 map there is a house here facing on Turnpike Street, marked Mrs. Robbins. In 1870 her heirs to Herod W. Brown; 1881 Savings Bank foreclosed and sold 1885 to Mrs. Rosa Punt; 1905, she having married John E. Hartwell, they sold to George A. Weston of Bellows Falls; 1906 to Horace A. Perry; 1912 to Copley Amory of New York City. This was mortgaged to the Savings Bank and the bank seems to have owned it for several years. It is not clear how Mary Sullivan Reil obtained, but her sons Mortimer J. and William J. Sullivan inherited and in 1940 deeded to William's wife Regina A. Sullivan; 1944 to Basil T. and Anna Belle Murray; 1946 to John J. and Dorothy Taylor Lawlor.
WEST SIDE OF TURNPIKE-MEAD MILL AREA, OUT OF CRAFTS LAND:
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17. IRENE E. GOODWIN (south part of lot) MAINE B. GILBERT (north part of lot)
John Crafts bargained gristmill and pondage rights to Aaron Hodgs- kins, carpenter, and the Crafts estate gave him a deed 1793. Hodgskins apparently built a mill and a house, but removed to Newfane, Vermont, selling in 1796 to Abraham Holland and Justin Hinds; 1799 to Aquilla Russell; 1803 to Elijah Russell, the property then being specified as a gristmill; 1807 to Moses Mead who lost it in 1817 to Amasa Allen who sold to Ebenezer Morse. AH 326 says of Mead:
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