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Downtown Westerly: the Alba Inn in 1949, with an article about its renovation. The Alba Inn was located at 31 Canal Street for years, until it burned down in 1985.
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Westerly: Reale's Grocery, opened in 1915, photo taken 2015. Located at 122 High Street.
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Westerly: the Alley Katz Bowling Alley, taken approximately 2015. Located at 116 Granite Street.
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Westerly: the Western Auto Associate Store, then located at 5 Canal Street, proprietors Walter and Lydia O'Donnell.
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High Street in downtown Westerly in 1945.
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F.W. Woolworth & Co, located at 64 High Street. Year unknown.
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Back of the postcard of the man in the car at Watch Hill.
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Postcard sent from Watch Hill, assumed to be a photo taken in Watch Hill but not sure exactly where.
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October 13, 1985, when the Alba Inn burned down. It had been located on Canal Street, behind the building that housed China Village for years (15 Canal Street).
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The Alba Inn, the night it burned in October 1985. This photo was taken from the corner of Canal Street and Railroad Avenue.
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Map of Westerly, with Cormorant Hill, the Lanphear Quarry, the Lanphear Cemetery #3, Potter Hill Road, and Upper High Street identified.
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Watch Hill: the Plimpton Dock, workers sharing watermelon. You can see in the background the Plimpton Hotel and Annex.
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Bradford: the corner of North Main Street and Vars Lane
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G3 80116 The Eagle Textile Mills, located at 53-75 Stillman Ave.
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G3 80115 -- Dixon Square, downtown Westerly. The Dixon House was built in 1868 and stood until April 1928 when it burned. At that time it was called the Rhode Island Hotel.
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G3 80114 Stonington: the west view of the Tom Palmer house, located near the Road Church (903 Pequot Trail).
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G3 80113 Stonington, the east room of the Tom Palmer House, located close to 903 Pequot Trail in Stonington.
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G3 80112 The interior of the "Tom Palmer House" in Stonington, located near the Road Church (903 Pequot Trail, Stonington).
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G3 80111 Stonington: This house was built by Rev. Ebeneezer Rossiter, and known as the Tom Palmer house.
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Vars Bros on High Street, located approximately where Westerly Jewelry is at present. Near the corner of High Street and Broad Street.
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Happy Holliday Restaurant, was located at 157 Granite Street, the current location of Supreme Pizza.
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Dairyland was located at 165 Granite Street. The building was built in 1953 and taken down about 20 years later to make room for a liquor store.
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The Central Theater, located on West Broad Street in Pawcatuck
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Bradford School, rear of the school, 1949, with Principal Harry Knight
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Potter Hill: the former Post Office. Later it was operated as a general store by C.T. Barber.
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Potter Hill Post Office, probably taken in the early 1900s.
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Bungtown Patriot vol 1 issue 1 pg4
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Bungtown Patriot vol 1 issue 1 pg3
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Bungtown Patriot vol 1 issue 1 pg2
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Bungtown Patriot vol 1 issue 1 pg1, January 1, 1825
