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At the corner of School Street (Depot Road) and Gilman Road was the Butterbox Shop, where cooper Eli Edson made butterboxes and other items. In 1895 he sold the shop to Eldred Pitkin and Mark Mears. Mears eventually sold his share to James Bouldry…

A steam engine pulls a flat car during construction of the Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad. The flat car carries the crew and a track-laying crane called a rail header. Also on board are standard guage rails and kegs of railroad spikes.

Marshfield Village Common, looking east up the Danville Road (note the covered bridge in the distance). The road is unpaved and the bandstand that was the focal point in later photos of the Common has not yet been built. The EW Gilman store, formerly…

Wallace and Alice (Peck) Lambert pose on the porch of The Marshfield House, c 1905. The building was built in 1864 and the Lamberts purchased it in 1896, running it as a hotel to house traveling salesmen known as "drummers". There is a hammock strung…

This time table card, dated April 25, 1954, provides information about the railroad policies such as departure delays, fares for children, ticket redemption and lost items. The back of the card provides daily train times for the destinations of…

Located on Main St. opposite School Street. The store was formerly owned by George McCrillis. Standing in the road are Mark Mears, Sr., Richard Mears (the 4-year old son of W.C. Mears) and George Bliss. A boy and a man sit on two benches on the…

This nothwesterly view was taken from Folsom Hill and looks over the village towards Creamery St. Three church steeples rise above the other buildings in the left part of the photo. The village center is in the middle of the photo. The covered bridge…

Farmers arrive at the creamery with cream and milk. The storage barn on the left behind the creamery is filled with wood for stoking the production equipment. Steam escapes from the vent pipes at the side of the building. By 1941 the name of the…

A traveling photographer is parked near the intersection of Main St. and Creamery St. His wagon and work tent bear signage stating "Views of residence & family groups" and "Photographs and Tintypes". A sample landscape hangs on the side of the…

After their original church burned in 1905, the congregation re-built. The new church had a stained glass window in the front. The old bell, which survived the fire, hangs in the new belfry. To the left of the church is the John & Jane Severance…

Steeplejacks work on the steeple while a few spectators gather by the trees to watch. There is a lightening rod at the peak. A pile of disgarded lumber rests to the left of the church in the grass.

From left: Artur Blake, Albert Lamberton, Ellis Preston, Ira Edson, Alvi Davis.