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19th-century view of Colburn House( now the Northshire Bookstore), 4869 Main Street
Mary Hard Bort, in Manchester: Memories of a Mountain Valley, wrote that the elm tree“ was cut down in 1931 so the road could be paved.”
A gristmill was typically one of the first mills that new settlers of a township built. The stone mill, 4858 Main Street, part of which is now Mountain Media, dates to circa 1820. Timothy Mead’ s name appears in the early land records for the heart of Manchester Center. He acquired some 200 acres. Before the district was known as Factory Point, people called it Mead’ s Mills— the mills Mead operated in the 1790s ran on waterpower at this spot.
The popular Northshire Bookstore, 4869 Main Street, was long known as the Colburn
Originally, the wraparound veranda was entirely open, and inside, there was a dance hall on the third floor, under the distinctive mansard roof.
House, an inn dating to the 1870s. Again, the nearly century-and-a-half-long chain of deeds shows different uses by successive owners. Originally, the wraparound veranda was entirely open, and inside, there was a dance hall on the third floor, under the distinctive mansard roof.
Turn left before the roundabout.
You have a much better view of the gristmill from the center of
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