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as adding to beauty and safety of said Ravine and for forming paths and other legiti- mate arrangements leaving Ravine in its natural state as nearly as practicable; the District shall put Ravine in custody of trustees, one or more being selected by the District itself and one by each of organizations most interested in the welfare of the village; the organizations selected and further conditions under which said trust shall be administered shall be determined by District from time to time; the trustees shall see that conditions protecting the beauty of lower part of Ravine and rights named in said Bellows-Knapp to Mitchell deed are adhered to. Conditions of this gift may be modified by vote of the District and approval of President of the Society for the Pro- tection of New Hampshire Forests if recorded in Cheshire County Registry of Deeds. If conditions of this deed are not satisfied or said District relinquishes tract, it shall re- vert to said Society to be used or transferred for public benefit at its discretion. This is not a part of this conveyance, but it is the hope of the grantors that the whole Acad- emy Ravine will be used as a part of Bellows-Knapp Trail from Main Street of the Village over old Academy and old school grounds up Academy Ravine to the old road at the head of the Ravine and follow this old road to Knapp Cranberry Meadow and Meeting House Hill Farm." This tract was all a part of Gen. Benjamin Bellows' hold- ings in the village and for the most part the dividing line between what Caleb Bellows had on the south and Phebe Bellows Grant had on the north.
NORTH ROAD FROM HIGH STREET TO RESERVOIR ROAD
At the top of the hill on North Road was the Peter Reynolds place, out of the old Grant holdings. In 1845 George W. Grant sold to Orin Bunker (Mary or May); 1854 to Sherman Watkins who sold to Reynolds. This was along the northeast line of the old Lot #2 in 5th Range. In 1857 Reynolds bought another six acres to the north to the corner of High Street and North Road, part of Lot #1 in 5th Range. His house stood on the curve in the road at the top of the hill and is still standing, owned and occupied by Raymond Houghton, #126.
125. CHARLES FARNSWORTH: Reynolds' daughter, Ellen R. Murphy of Jersey City, sold the first plot on north in 1907 to Mrs. Emily C. Fisher; 1921 to Town of Walpole; 1934 to Adeline Chickering; 1935 to Leslie and Rose Swain. The west two acres they sold in 1943 to Clarence Swain; 1947 to Richard C. Swain; 1953 to Charles Farnsworth.
126. RAYMOND O. HOUGHTON: The next place east the Swains sold (four acres) to Francis M. and Gladys E. Shulenberger; 1947 to Frank E. and Harriet M. Ude; 1950 to Harvey L. and Emma E. Allen. They sold two acres 1950 to Paul L. and Helen Costin; 1951 to John R. and Mildred Fennessy; 1956 to Raymond O. and Arlene C. Houghton.
127. JIRA T. JENNINGS: Next east Leslie Swain sold 1944 to Louise K. Chickering; 1949 she sold part of the lot to Harvey L. Allen. He also bought part of the Shulenberger-Ude lot and added a part of that lot
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to the above and sold 1957 to Dwight L. and Elizabeth R. McKechnie; 1962 to present owners.
128. EDWARD T. GRAVES: Next east is the Edward Graves property, a part of what Louise K. Chickering sold 1949 to James E. and Ruth E. Nelson; 1953 to Herbert R. and Irene D. Burchstead; 1954 to Edward T. and Barbara K. Graves.
129. SHELDON E. ALLEN: South of the Graves property, back from the highway, is the house of Sheldon E. and Helen E. Allen. In 1950 Louise K. Chickering sold to Oscar J. Thayer; 1953 to the Allens.
130. HOWARD R. IVES: On the corner next to what was the road to the Hill Meeting House is the place of Howard Ives which was purchased 1955 from James E. Nelson.
CONTINUATION OF MAIN STREET, EAST SIDE, SOUTH FROM HIGH STREET
131. WALPOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Gen. Benjamin Bellows left to his son Caleb his home place east side Main Street from Grant's line south to Ormsby's; 1817 to Samuel and Phebe Grant; 1831 to Walpole Academy; 1853 Academy to School District #1; 1950 to Walpole Historical Society, the old Academy on Main Street.
132 & 133. EUGENE P. CRAY: In 1950 the School District sold the school buildings on the east end of the academy lot to Eugene P. Cray who made them into apartments.
SCHOOL STREET, EAST SIDE
134. GORDON H. FLETCHER: (opposite Academy Lot)-This lot was along the north line of that part of General Bellows' land which his son Caleb had, east of the academy land, near the Ravine. In 1836 Thomas Bellows, Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows, Josiah Bellows 3rd and Ephraim Holland sold to Asa Griffin, who had a gristmill here, with steam engine and mill stones; 1837 mortgaged, lost to William Jennison, Frederick Vose and William H. Gage, who sold their interests 1839 and 1843 to Charles Sparhawk; 1859 his heirs to William Ramsay Jr. (Sarah); 1860 to Sher- man Watkins (Harriet L.); 1867 to James L. Mitchell; 1883 his estate to Alma Chandler (Henry F.). Chandler had a slaughterhouse which was later converted into a blacksmith shop, and has since been removed. In 1906, the Chandlers had removed to Rockingham, sold to Bartholomew Kiniry; 1954 Bridget Kiniry to Gordon H. and Dorothy J. Fletcher.
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135. ROBERT S. ALDRICH: In 1836 the same academy group sold to Susan Robeson the next piece south on the east side of School Street, about 14 acres, extending easterly along the south side of the Ravine; 1836 a half-acre house lot in the northwest corner on the street to Asa Titus who probably built the house; 1842 to William W. Graves, who lost the prop- erty in 1846 on a judgment to John J. Prentiss of Claremont; 1849 to Anson (Sally) Lawrence and Uriah (Mary) Newton; 1854 to Ozias S. Morris (Rebecca C.) of Sunapee; 1857 to William Farnham; 1869 Olive Thurston and Esther T. Underwood of Westminster to Frederick J. Hub- bard; 1877 to his wife Julietta Hubbard; 1892 to Fred A. Hatch; 1893 to Hattie M. Fisher; 1921 heirs to Katherine Warn whose second husband was Harry W. Ramsay; his estate 1952 to Raoul J. and Emma M. Mc- Kenven; 1954 to present owners.
136. MARY RUSSELL: Next south from Robert Aldrich, Susan Robeson sold another house lot in 1836 to William T. Farr, who probably built the house; 1844 to Simeon Ballou (through Otis Bardwell); 1847 to Hartshorn Wight; 1850 to George W. Cowdery of Westmoreland, barber; 1897 his widow, Selina P.'s estate to Minnie E. Burt; 1911 to Frank M. Russell, whose widow Mary now owns the property.
137. DOROTHY WHITNEY: The main part of her lot on the east side of School Street Susan Robeson sold 1851 to James M. Burroughs; 1855 to Major J. Britton (Jane); to J. William Knight (Gratia J.), land and buildings; 1865 to Samuel D. Learned (Cynthia P.); 1869 to Eben Burr; 1873 to Thomas B. Buffum; 1884 to John C. Howard of Westmoreland, wife Emma; 1902, then of Somerville, Mass., sold to Edward J. Snow; 1907 to Dorothy Whitney of Melrose, Mass.
138. OLIVER J. HUBBARD: The same academy group sold to Abel Bellows (Julia) a 4% interest (he already had 1%) in the next south 13 acres; to David Buffum in 1874; 1901 to Everett L. Houghton, who built the house; 1908 to John H. Williams; 1927 his widow Merab B. to Oliver J. Hubbard.
UNION STREET, NORTH SIDE
This was a part of Gen. Benjamin Bellows' holdings; the Grants bought from Caleb Bellows.
139. HAROLD S. PUTNAM: The lot on Main Street, including the old Gen. Benjamin Bellows' house, built 1766, changed owners more or less in the family until 1839, when it was sold to Thomas Bellows; 1852 to Edward Crosby (Eliza); 1857 to Henry P. Foster who came from his farm on Went-
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worth Road to live here; 1886 to Dr. Abel Richardson (Sylvia). In 1888, the original house was torn down and replaced with the present struc- ture. (For detailed description see Bellows Falls Times Apr. 3, 1889.) 1906 to Charlotte G. and Alexander Davidson; 1917 to Willis C. Foster, Mary and Hannah Callahan; 1946 heirs to Albert J. and Mary Frances Jance- wicz; 1949 to Forrest W. and Thelma W. Pinkham; 1956 to Raymond H. and Ruth M. Presby (agriculture teacher); 1959 to present owners.
140. ESTATE GEORGE S. HARRIS: In 1829 the Grants sold to David Buffum 13 rods on Main Street (Union Street was not laid then). This property remained in the family until 1928 when it was sold to George S. and Anne S. Harris.
The following is an abstract of the building contract now in the His- torical Society Museum:
Memorandum of an agreement made the fifth day of March AD 1835, between George Kilburn of Walpole . .. & David Buffum of said Walpole. ...
The said Kilburn agrees to build for said Buffum a two story house, low part to the same, wood house & barn agreeably to plans . . . to be erected on said Buffum's House lot in Walpole Village. The said Kilburn is to dig and stone a cellar under the whole of the two story part of the house, the wall to be of good stone well laid and pointed . .. & the cellar to be suitably lighted. ... To have a piassa of one story ... with fluted columns. ... The two west fireplaces of the lower story to be freestone. The outside of the house to be finished with a good rich straight moulding cornice around the two story part & the piassa. The windows in the two story part to be of Keene glass 11 by 15 inches, & those in the two front parlours to be hung with weights. The parlour windows to be finished with shutters & those rooms to have sliding doors. . . . To be a Venitian window in the west pediment. ... The style of finish of the house to be as good as Mr. Ephraim Holland's.
The outside of the house & low part to be well painted white with three coats. The barn and woodhouse with two coats of yellow. The front part of the inside of the two story part ... to be well painted white, & the rest of the inside ... with yellow & slate colour.
The whole to be finished by the first day of December next.
And the said Buffum agrees, when the above is completed, to convey to said Kilburn . . . that part of his house lot which is bounded as follows, to wit, Beginning at the north west corner thereof, thence on the main street to the north garden fence, thence easterly in a line with said fence about fifteen rods to the west side of the most easterly apple tree, thence parallel with the first mentioned line to the academy land thence on said Academy land to the place of beginning, with buildings thereon, and all the privilege of water which he now holds and also pay to said Kilburn the sum of four hundred dollars. . .
DAVID BUFFUM
GEORGE KILBURN
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141. MRS. OSCAR GAST: Abraham Jackson, a Congregational minister, built the present Gast house on the east end of the Buffum lot, prob- ably in 1838. In 1865 Jackson, then of Fall River, Mass., sold to Thomas B. Buffum; 1889 to B. Frank Webster (Maggie), who was in business with Matthew Gorham. In 1897 Webster sold to Lucius S. Howe; 1903 to George Sabin, whose daughters lived there. The property was later owned by Rev. Samuel R. Maxwell; 1949 to Theron B. and Esther C. Thomp- son; 1952 to Oscar A. and Mertie D. Gast of Charlestown, who sold their place there to Eleanor Sawyer. Thompson had removed to North Brook- field, Mass.
UNION STREET, SOUTH SIDE
142. UNITARIAN CHURCH AND PARISH HOUSE: This was the north four rod strip across the lot Jones and Swan had sold in 1797 to Stephen Ormsby. He lived here and lost the property in 1819 to Josiah Bellows, the house being moved in 1840 to Middle Street to make way for the new church. (See AH 342.)
The Parish House east of the church was erected in 1898 as a memorial to Mrs. Amy Bridge Hastings. It was designed by Thomas Hastings and built by Beckwith of Claremont.
The Parsonage east of the Parish House was built in 1848. (See Churches.)
143. ROCCO CARMEN MITTICA: In 1922, the trustees of the Walpole Con- gregational Society (Unitarian) sold the southwest corner at School and Union Streets to Marion Spaulding Cahalane (Reginald Foster Caha- lane), who built the house here; 1934 to Ernest L. Bell of Keene; 1934 to Bessie W. Pierce; 1956 she left it to Crotched Mt. Foundation, which sold it to Rocco Carmen and Joan Gail Mittica.
MAIN STREET, SOUTH OF UNION TO SCHOOL STREET 144. HERMON O. WOODWARD: Charles Stratton, who was a cooper, lived here with his wife for nearly 50 years. The next owner was his son-in-law Augustus Faulkner; 1911 Harry C. Faulkner to Jennie A. Hawks; 1917 Charles Hawks to Hermon O. Woodward.
145. OSCAR WOODWARD: In 1916 Hawks sold to Ferdinand D. Roden- bush a house lot in the northeast corner of the tract, west side of School Street, where Rodenbush built a house; 1925 to Ralph E. Libby; 1950 to Oscar and Josephine Woodward.
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146. ANNA M. CHENEY: In 1940 Hermon O. Woodward sold a house lot on the south side of the new blind street to Harold T. and Anna M. Cheney.
147. ELLIOTT B. WOODWARD: Next west of Cheney, Hermon O. Wood- ward sold land and building 1950 to Elliott B. and Eleanor C. Wood- ward.
148. RICHARD PEARCE: In 1788 Gen. Benjamin Bellows sold to Guerdon Huntington, goldsmith, a small piece of land north of the corner of Prospect and Main Streets. He had a house here and a shop.
In 1794 Bellows sold to Joseph Barnard, blacksmith, one and one-half acres surrounding Huntington's property, except 21 rods along Prospect, and north on Main Street to the Woodward lot. There was a dwelling house and shop already there. The next month Barnard sold to Hunting- ton a half acre surrounding his property, and in 1802 a little piece he had reserved out of the northwest corner on the street. The south part of the lot he sold in 1795 to Calvin Ripley, wheelwright. (See Austin Hub- bard place.)
In 1802 Guerdon Huntington was living on a lot he had from Caleb Bellows northeast of his other holdings, when he sold to Thomas Drew; 1833 to Charles W. Carey; 1839 to Philip Peck and William Bellows; 1854 to James Stowell (slight exchange of line with David Russell 1863).
In 1891 Anna Wright (sole heir of Louisa Frink who had inherited from Mrs. Stowell) to Abbie E. Chappell; 1892 to Clarabelle Snow (hus- band James D.); 1893 to Fred Prentiss; 1895 to Charles Parker Jr .; 1898 to Ella M. Weber; 1930 her estate to Charles A. and Mildred R. Moul- trop; 1942 to Charles Carroll White and Edith LeMoyne White; 1956 to Catherine E. McAfee Pearce and Ellen L. McAfee.
149. MRS. ALBERT C. DICKEY ESTATE: In 1854 James and Sarah K. Stowell sold to David Russell the south part of the lot (on the corner). After Russell died George S. Wilder (son-in-law) bought the other shares; heirs and trustees sold 1905 to Grace Lincoln Darling; 1924 to Town Congregational Society; 1925 to Albert C. Dickey.
PROSPECT STREET, NORTH TO SOUTH
150. AUSTIN I. HUBBARD: In 1794 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold this lot of one and one-half acres, with dwelling house and blacksmith shop standing thereon, to Joseph Barnard, blacksmith. In 1795 he sold to Calvin Rip- ley, wheelwright, one acre; 1802 to Roger Vose; 1836 to John S. Gallup;
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1836 to William Watkins; 1843 to George Carlisle of Cincinnati, Ohio; 1852 to Lydia Maynard (John). The Maynard heirs sold 1907 to Lucia E. Clark of Winchester, Mass .; 1928 to Austin I. Hubbard.
151. CHARLES DAVIS (corner Prospect and School Streets): This was part of the Academy Boarding House property, sold 1837 to William Wat- kins; 1841 to his mother, Sarah (Mrs. Ruggles Watkins). She died in 1866; heirs sold to Samuel J. Martin of Marlborough. Probably the house was built for Mrs. Watkins. In 1869 Martin sold to Charles C. Davis; 1917 other heirs sold to Arthur P. Davis.
152. HAROLD S. PUTNAM: While William Watkins owned the Davis place, he sold a lot next north, 107 feet along the west side of School Street, to James Reazin (Reason) in 1839; mortgaged to George Allen, who sold in 1848 to Jesseniah Kittredge; 1853 to Ann Reazin; 1863 to James Dris- lane; 1900 to Catherine L. Marvin of Langdon; 1902 to Charles C. Davis; 1917 other heirs to Thomas C. Davis of Newton Highlands, Mass .; 1924 to Mae E. Shackley (Mary E.); 1951 to Harold S. and Avis L. Putnam.
153. HOLMES H. WHITMORE: Col. Caleb Bellows (1767-1822) son of Ben- jamin Bellows Jr., was married March 6, 1791 to Mary Hartwell (1770- 1846) of New Ipswich. (For wedding details see Barnes Reminiscences 39-41.) About that time his father built for him the house on Prospect, now owned and occupied by Holmes Whitmore. Here Caleb Bellows passed the rest of his life, and here his twelve children were born. After the Academy was established in 1831, the house was used as a boarding house for pupils from out of town, and it was for years called the "Board- ing House."
Caleb Bellows was a farmer, owning (from his father) a good part of the village south of the business section. To farming he added other enterprises such as distilling and the manufacture of saltpetre.
After Caleb Bellows' death his estate on Prospect was sold in 1831 to Thomas Lord and Elisha Parks of Boston; 1833 to Daniel Brooks of Groton, Mass .; immediately to George Huntington, reserving a small piece of land and buildings occupied by the widow Mary Bellows "during her natural life and no longer." A month later Huntington sold to Nathaniel Holland; 1835 to Thomas Bellows, Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows, Josiah Bellows III and Ephraim Holland. (See AH 143-4. Acad- emy 1831-54.)
In 1852 they sold to Amos Atkinson of Brookline, Mass. (Anna G.); 1862 to H. W. S. Griswold; 1898 Sarah G. Hale to Helen M. Banning;
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1930 heirs to Carrie D. Moore (Carroll A.); 1945 her estate to Humphrey B. and Evelyn T. Neill; 1946 to Holmes H. and Marjorie A. Whitmore. 154. JOHN A. HUBBARD: In 1949 the Neills sold a strip from the southeast side of what is now the Whitmore Estate to Frank B. and Marjorie W. Estes of Rockingham, Vt .; they built the house, later moved to Keene, where he was manager of WKNE radio station. The Estes sold in 1955 to John A. Hubbard.
155. EDWARD A. JOHNSON: In 1952 the Harrises sold a lot in the northwest corner of #156 on Prospect Street to Edward A. and Doris E. Johnson, who built the house.
156. ROBERT E. HARRINGTON: In 1836 Thomas Bellows, Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows, Josiah Bellows 3rd, and Ephraim Holland sold to Thomas Wilder (Polly H.), painter, three acres next southeast of where John Hub- bard now resides; 1849 to James Hooper Jr. (Mary L.), who owned con- siderable farm land here, back from the road; 1854 to Jonas Tufts of Charlestown; 1876 to William March; 1883 March, then of Keene, to Harriet A. Porter; 1903 to Edgar V. and Alice M. Smith (brother and sister), she a dealer in antiques; 1925 heirs of Alice M. Smith to Euphame S. Mallison of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y .; 1926 widow (of Charlottesville, Va.) to Minnie L. and Leslie (Let) Converse of Westminster, Vt .; 1931 to George S. and Anne S. Harris. In 1940, the Harrises sold the southeast corner of the lot on Prospect to Robert E. Harrington. There had been a one and one-half story brick house with pillars here, which burned about 1925 while the Smiths owned it. The Harrington house was built on the cellarhole.
157. WARREN L. RAND: In 1961 the Harris Estate sold land here to War- ren L. and Joyce M. Rand, who have built a house.
158. EDITH HARRIS: In 1836 Thomas Bellows, Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows, Josiah Bellows 3rd and Ephraim Holland sold, from the old Caleb Bellows property, the place where Edith Harris now resides to Abigail (Nabby) Jennison, daughter of Jonathan; 1868 to Frederick Kil- burn, carpenter; 1880 to Aurora Kenrick (Mrs. Charles J.); her heirs (Mary K. Barnes and Charles T. Kenrick of Walpole, Edward S. Kenrick of Farley, Mass.); 1908 to Jennie A. (Mrs. Charles S.) Hawks; 1911 to Grace W. Bellows (Mrs. Clifford); 1921 to Edith Harris.
159. HOMER G. WALLACE: Mary Bellows (widow of Caleb) lived 24 years after her husband died. She had this place. Her heirs sold 1847 to Foskit
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Farr; 1849 to Eli Snow (Dorcas) of Boston; 1857 to James Bunting; 1903 Mahala Bunting to George O. Taggard; 1910 to Ola Hubbard; 1921 to Sumner Watkins. In 1929, he made over the deed to Homer Wallace, who took care of him through his declining years. Mrs. Wallace, who is now postmaster, was Gertrude Ramsay. This is a very old house.
160. MERLE JEFFREY: In 1941 the Wallaces sold a house lot southeast of their house to Dorothy B. Kendall, daughter of Mrs. John Good. Mr. Good built the house for Dr. and Mrs. Kendall. The doctor died very suddenly after moving to Jaffrey; in 1950, Mrs. Kendall sold to the Goods, and in 1953 they sold to Merle and Elaine G. Jeffrey.
161. DONALD H. SAWYER: In 1961 Norbert A. Hudson sold land here to Donald H. and Betty L. Sawyer, who built the house.
162. NORBERT A. HUDSON: In 1796 Caleb Bellows sold the two acres where the buildings are to Dr. Stephen Johnson; 1801 to Oliver Sparhawk, who in 1812 bought more land from Caleb Bellows. Sparhawk was a thrifty business man during his comparatively short life, and much respected. He built the house here and had a large family of children. His wife died in 1818, he in 1824. Place sold to Nehemiah Giles in 1829; 1847 to Anson Dale; 1848 to Jehial Comstock of Acworth; 1854 Alanson and Jehial Comstock to Louisa Hayward (see Bellows Genealogy, pp. 189, 391); 1870 to Harrison G. Barnes of Jamaica, Vt .; 1907 the other heirs to Charles H. Barnes; hay barn burned July 13, 1913; in 1920 to John L. Kerr of Putney, Vt .; 1921 to Nial Bemis of Athens, Vt .; 1924 the bank to Arthur H. Chickering Jr. of Westmoreland; 1925 to Henry H. Reed; 1926 to John H. O'Brien; 1928 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1928 to John Walker of Langdon; 1942 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1942 to Charles H. Cleveland; 1945 to William H. Proctor of Charlestown, for his daughter and her husband, Vesta and Fred Nystrom; 1952 to Harold A. and Elizabeth C. Newton; 1960 to present owners.
163. LOUBERT F. BROOKS: This was originally a part of the Barnes farm. The house stood down the hill from Mr. Cutter's and was moved to this site November 1909 by Charles Barnes. In 1924 Arthur H. Chickering of Westmoreland sold to Lydia M. Beach; 1927 to Ellen Seery of Allston, Mass. Her sister, Lizzie Leary, worked for Dorothy Whitney doing house- work and farm work, and lived here until she died. Ellen Seery (husband Joseph) sold in 1954 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr. and Irene A. Chickering of Westminster, Vt .; 1957 to Murray Cobleigh; 1959 to Loubert F. and Alice K. Brooks.
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164. COL. CALEB BELLOWS' FARM OCCUPIED BY NATHANIEL HOLLAND 1834, CELLARHOLE: On the old road north from the Hill Meeting House (now Hooper School) well up toward North Road, on the east side of the road, there is an old cellarhole, up on the bank. This was part of Caleb Bellows' land from his father. In 1834 there was listed Col. Caleb Bellows' farm occupied by Nathaniel Holland (in School District #1). On Decem- ber 23, 1834, Nathaniel Holland sold this place to Anson Lawrence. It is not shown on the 1858 map so it must have been gone before that time. The price in 1834 was $353.25; the land included 18 acres. Those are all the clues on that cellarhole. Before then, it was concealed in Caleb Bellows' large holdings, and after then, it was only a part of Anson Lawrence's estate. It is now a part of the Turner place on North Road.
The rest of the places on the northeast side of Prospect were out of land Col. Benjamin Bellows left to his daughter Abigail. William Bur- rows' north line was the line between the Benjamin Bellows Jr. property and the Abigail Bellows Hunt Richardson property.
FROM WESTMINSTER STREET TO MIDDLE STREET
There was at one time a lane along the south side of the Crafts lot from the present junction of Westminster and Main Streets at a 12° angle south. When the present street was laid in 1807, there was left a wedge of Crafts land between the lane and the street. This the Crafts (John and Esther) sold in 1814 to the partnership of Samuel Dana and Thomas Bellows 2nd, who in 1812 had bought from Josiah Bellows 2nd the next lot to the south. The west part of the lot became the Walpole Inn lot. Samuel Dana lived on this lot when the partnership ran into financial difficulties in 1820. The lot was taken over by the Cheshire Bank.
165. WALPOLE INN: The wider part of the lot to the west Abel Bellows had sold in 1836 to Anson Dale; 1839 to George Allen; 1841 to his father- in-law William Mitchell. His son, James L. Mitchell, who was a successful hotel man in New York, built here a new house for his father and it continued to be the home of members of the family until 1897 when heirs sold to Amy W. Jennings; 1899 to Bessie E. Worthen; 1900 to Clark Chase; 1902 to Copley Amory. He completely remodelled the place, de- veloping it into the Walpole Inn. In 1908 Amory sold to Georgetta A. Mills; 1914 to Josiah F. and Violet G. Wilson; 1932 to Reginald F. and Marion Cahalane; 1934 to the Wilsons again; 1937 to John H. Boyce; 1940 to Avery M. Stevens; 1942 to Wilsons to Bank; 1946 to Mason E. and
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Emma G. Harker; 1947 to Mary Louise Weber (she married Wing); 1951 to Dania, Inc .; 1959 to James J. Neville. The building was razed in 1962 after being taken by Savings Bank of Walpole.
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